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Barbel

noun
1.
Slender tactile process on the jaws of a fish.  Synonym: feeler.



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... this fish is named Barbatus, which both Hakluyt and Harris have translated Turbot, a fish never found in rivers. It was more probably a Barbel, in Latin called Barbus; or it might be of the Sturgeon tribe, which likewise has beard-like appendages, and is found in ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 1 • Robert Kerr


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