Dictionary
bar•bel
Pronunciation: (bär'bul), [key]—
n.
1. a slender, external process on the jaw or other part of the head of certain fishes.
2. any of various cyprinoid fishes of the genus
Barbus, esp.
B. barbus, of European waters.
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