barbet
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French barbe (“beard; long hair of certain animals”).
Noun[edit]
barbet (plural barbets)
- Any of numerous arboreal birds of the families Capitonidae, Lybiidae, and Megalaimidae, within the order Piciformes.
- A dog of a small-bodied breed with long curly hair.
- Any larva of an indefinite number of species of the beetle family Coccinellidae, that is covered in waxy threads and feeds on aphids and similar small prey.
- 1839 John Obadiah Westwood: An Introduction to the Modern Classification of Insects
- Réaumur, in his account of the insects which attack the aphides, has described the larva of a Coleopterous insect, which he names "l'hérisson blanc", or "le barbet blanc", of small size, and remarkable for having the body clothed with small bundles of oblong, white, cotton-like "touffes" ... I have met with this larva ... it evidently ... belongs to some species of the genus Scymnus.
- 1839 John Obadiah Westwood: An Introduction to the Modern Classification of Insects
Synonyms[edit]
- (dog) French Water Dog
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Irish: bairbéad
Translations[edit]
dog
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See also[edit]
- Barbet (dog) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Lybiidae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia (African barbet)
- Capitonidae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia (American barbet)
- Megalaimidae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia (Asian barbet)
- Semnornithidae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia (Toucan-barbet)
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From barbe (“beard; long hair of certain animals”) + -et.
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
barbet m (plural barbets)
- barbet (all senses)
Descendants[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “barbet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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Noun[edit]
barbet m (plural barbets)
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
barbet m (plural barbeți)
- barbet (dog)
Declension[edit]
Declension of barbet
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) barbet | barbetul | (niște) barbeți | barbeții |
genitive/dative | (unui) barbet | barbetului | (unor) barbeți | barbeților |
vocative | barbetule | barbeților |
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- English terms borrowed from French
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- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- Norman lemmas
- Norman nouns
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- Jersey Norman
- nrf:Fishing
- Romanian terms borrowed from French
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