Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having a beard; bearded.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Furnished with barbs.
  • In botany, bearded; furnished with long and weak hairs.
  • In zoology, bearded; having a tuft of hair or feathers on the chin; in entomology, bordered by long hairs.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot.) Bearded; beset with long and weak hairs.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective botany bearded; having long thin hairs

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having hair on the cheeks and chin

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin barbātus, from barba, beard; see barb.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Latin barbatus, from barba beard. See barb beard.

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Examples

  • 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 Fritz Muller 1859

  • (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 Fritz Muller 1859

  • With a barbate opercular peduncle, Filograna-stage;

    Facts and Arguments for Darwin Fritz Muller 1859

  • The barbate and bespoke-suited Pachauri has become the locus of criticism of the IPCC's 2007 assessment report, which has been found to contain some tenuous science along with a few outright falsehoods - the most prominent among the latter being the assertion that the Himalayan glaciers will be gone by 2035.

    Articles on National Review Online Daniel Foster 2010

  • The barbate and bespoke-suited Pachauri has become the locus of criticism of the IPCC's 2007 assessment report, which has been found to contain some tenuous science along with a few outright falsehoods - the most prominent among the latter being the assertion that the Himalayan glaciers will be gone by 2035.

    National Review Online Daniel Foster 2010

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

    The Latest on Air America 2008

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

    The Latest on Air America 2008

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

    The Latest on Air America 2008

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

    The Latest on Air America 2008

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

    The Latest on Air America 2008

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  • Bearded. As in Bulgarian weighlifters, clams and ex-girlfriends. Same root as barber. Not related to Barbi.

    November 23, 2007