barbicel

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barbicel - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Barbicel \Bar"bi*cel\, n. [NL. barbicella, dim. of L. barba. See
     1st Barb.] (Zool.)
     One of the small hooklike processes on the barbules of
     feathers.
     [1913 Webster]