barbate

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The barbate Lionel loathes trite shibboleths, playbook and bumper sticker labels as well as leprosy.

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  1. adjective Having a beard; bearded.

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  • The barbate Lionel loathes trite shibboleths, playbook and bumper sticker labels as well as leprosy. —  The Latest on Air America
  • With a barbate opercular peduncle, Filograna-stage; —  Facts and Arguments for Darwin
  • Three years ago I found on the walls of one of my glasses some small worm-tubes (Figure 65), the inhabitants of which bore three pairs of barbate branchial filaments, and had no operculum. —  Facts and Arguments for Darwin
  • (Figure 66), when the animals reminded me, by the barbate opercular peduncle, of the genus Filograna, only that the latter possesses two opercula. —  Facts and Arguments for Darwin
  • But no, I am mistaken; from the beginning of all things the Creator knew, that one day the inquisitive children of men would grope about after analogies and homologies, and that Christian naturalists would busy themselves with thinking out his Creative ideas; at any rate, in order to facilitate the discernment by the former that the opercular peduncle of the Serpulae is homologous with a branchial filament, He allowed it to make a detour in its development, and pass through the form of a barbate branchial filament. —  Facts and Arguments for Darwin
 

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  1. Latin barbātus, from barba, beard; see barb1.

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  1. from Latin barbatus, bearded, from barba, beard: see barb.
 

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/ˈbɑrbeɪt/
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