Definition of Barbules. Meaning of Barbules. Synonyms of Barbules

- or barbs; the barbs themselves are also branched and form the barbules. These barbules have minute hooks called barbicels for cross-attachment. Down feathers...
- Pennaceous feathers also have much smaller barbules branching from the entire length of each barb; these barbules have tiny hooks along their length, which...
- feather types. It has a short or vestigial rachis (shaft), few barbs, and barbules that lack hooks. There are three types of down: natal down, body down and...
- and proximal barbules produce a closed, pennaceous vane (a contour feather). A closed vane develops when pennulae on the distal barbules form a hooked...
- nanostructures of the barbules (fiber-like components) of the feathers, produce the pea****'s colors. Slight changes to the spacing of the barbules result in different...
- number of flattened barbs, that are connected to one another with barbules. The barbules are tiny strands that criss-cross on the flattened sides of the...
- barb is known as the ramus. barbules Also, radius / radii; tertiary fibres. Also defined: proximal barbules; distal barbules; barbicels; hooklets (hamuli);...
- and nostrils and on its neck with barbules closer together. They are stiffer with more hooks and nodes for barbules to attach to one another, yielding...
- creation of wingtip vortices, thereby reducing drag. The barbules on these feathers, friction barbules, are specialized with large lobular barbicels that help...
- large stacks of melanosomes in the feather barbules, occurring as layers separated by keratin. The barbules reflect incident light in the manner of partially-opened...