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Definition of Barbules

Barbule
Barbule Bar"bule, n. [L. barbula, fr. barba beard.] 1. A very minute barb or beard. --Booth. 2. (Zo["o]l.) One of the processes along the edges of the barbs of a feather, by which adjacent barbs interlock. See Feather.

Meaning of Barbules from wikipedia

- or barbs; the barbs themselves are also branched and form the barbules. These barbules have minute hooks called barbicels for cross-attachment. Down feathers...
- 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...
- 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 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...
- and proximal barbules produce a closed, pennaceous vane (a contour feather). A closed vane develops when pennulae on the distal barbules form a hooked...
- creation of wingtip vortices, thereby reducing drag. The barbules on these feathers, friction barbules, are specialized with large lobular barbicels that help...
- barb is known as the ramus. barbules Also, radius / radii; tertiary fibres. Also defined: proximal barbules; distal barbules; barbicels; hooklets (hamuli);...
- the barbules (fiber-like components) of the feathers, produce the pea****'s colors. 2D photonic-crystal structures within the layers of the barbules cause...
- changes in a bird of paradise caused by uniquely structured breast feather barbules". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 278 (1715):...