a. [ad. L. barbātus bearded, f. barba beard.] Bearded; in Bot. and Zool. furnished with a small hairy tuft or tufts.
1853. E. Hamilton, Flora Homœop., 217. Common Mullein … The filaments … barbate.
1856–8. W. Clark, Van der Hoeven’s Zool., I. 318. Scatophaga—Head barbate beneath.
