barbet

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English

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Etymology

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From French barbe (beard; long hair of certain animals).

Noun

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barbet (plural barbets)

Crested Barbet
The larva of the beetle Scymnus interruptus is an example of the forms known as barbets
Two barbets on show
  1. Any of numerous arboreal birds of the families Capitonidae, Lybiidae, and Megalaimidae, within the order Piciformes.
  2. A dog of a small-bodied breed with long curly hair.
  3. 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.(Can we verify(+) this sense?)
    • 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.

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  • Irish: bairbéad

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French

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Etymology

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From barbe (beard; long hair of certain animals) +‎ -et.

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Noun

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barbet m (plural barbets)

  1. barbet (all senses)

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Norman

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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barbet m (plural barbets)

  1. (Jersey) barb (in fishhook)

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French barbet.

Noun

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barbet m (plural barbeți)

  1. barbet (dog)

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