barbellate

1. 1.

   having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

   “a horse with a short bristly mane”

   “bristly shrubs”

   “burred fruits”

   “setaceous whiskers”

   Synonymsbarbedbriarybrierybristledbristlyburredburrypricklysetosesetaceousspinythorny

   Similararmed

Questions about barbellate

What does barbellate mean?

barbellate means "having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.".

How many syllables are in barbellate?

barbellate has 3 syllables: bar-bel-late. The stress falls on "bar".

What is another word for barbellate?

Close synonyms include barbed, briary, briery, bristled, bristly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is barbellate a common word?

barbellate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.