Definitions for barbel

barbel bar·bel

Spelling: [bahr-buh l]
IPA: /ˈbɑr bəl/

Barbel is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 92 anagrams from letters in barbel (abbelr).

Definitions for barbel

noun

  1. a slender, external process on the jaw or other part of the head of certain fishes.
  2. any of various cyprinoid fishes of the genus Barbus, especially B. barbus, of European waters.

Origin of barbel

1400-1450; late Middle English barbell Middle French barbel (French barbeau) Vulgar Latin *barbellus, equivalent to Late Latin barb(us) a barbel (fish) (akin to Latin barba Examples for barbel

Also, barbel is a small piece of armour which protects part of the bassenet.

The barbel projecting from the chin denotes that it is a bottom feeder.

The barbel also is a Trent fish, and the stream may claim the salmon.

There I saw the trout had swallowed a barbel, full half a pound weight.'

My acquaintance with barbel is also so limited that it counts for little.

Not even barbel, Ann, or Metz took any special notice of your sister.

I had no idea that the trout was so voracious; but that one had swallowed a barbel.'

barbel gazed at me silently for a moment, and then he pointed to the frame.

barbel had an air of having been to let for a long time, and quite out of repair.

When I reached home I told my wife the story of my friend barbel.

Word Value for barbel
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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