| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| barbicel |
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| SYLLABICATION: | bar·bi·cel |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  bär b -s l |
| NOUN: | One of the minute, hooked projections extending from and interlocking the barbules of a feather. | | ETYMOLOGY: | New Latin barbicella, diminutive of Latin barba, beard. See bhardh- - in Appendix I.
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