ADJECTIVE
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having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
setaceous whiskers
burred fruits
a horse with a short bristly mane
bristly shrubs
How To Use barbellate In A Sentence
- We drew from the river shining blue perch heavier than the fattest man in our company, and there were huge catfish, with barbellate whiskers as long as my arm, that were too strong and weighty to be captured in the nets. River God