Word Meanings - BARBELLULATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Barbellate with diminutive hairs or barbs.

Related words: (words related to BARBELLULATE)

• DIMINUTIVE
  1. Below the average size; very small; little. 2. Expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word. 3. Tending to diminish. Diminutive of liberty. Shaftesbury.
• DIMINUTIVENESS
  The quality of being diminutive; smallness; littleness; minuteness.
• BARBELLATE
  Having short, stiff hairs, often barbed at the point. Gray.
• HAIRSPLITTER
  One who makes excessively nice or needless distinctions in reasoning; one who quibbles. "The caviling hairsplitter." De Quincey.
• HAIRSPLITTING
  Making excessively nice or trivial distinctions in reasoning; subtle. -- n.
• HAIRSTREAK
  A butterfly of the genus Thecla; as, the green hairstreak (T. rubi).
• HAIRSPRING
  The slender recoil spring which regulates the motion of the balance in a timepiece.
• DIMINUTIVELY
  In a diminutive manner.
• STADIA HAIRS; STADIA WIRES
  In a theodolite, etc., horizontal cross wires or hairs equidistant from the central horizontal cross wire.