barbet

English

Etymology

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

Noun

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.
   • 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.

Synonyms

• (dog) French Water Dog

Derived terms

Derived terms

• African barbet
• American barbet
• Asian barbet
• black-browed barbet
• Toucan-barbet

Descendants

• → Irish: bairbéad

Translations

bird

• Finnish: seppä (fi)
• Irish: bairbéad m

dog

• Finnish: barbet (fi)
• French: barbet (fr)
• German: Französischer Wasserhund
• Spanish: perro de agua francés

See also

• Barbet (dog) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Lybiidae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia (African barbet)
• Capitonidae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia (American barbet)
• Megalaimidae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia (Asian barbet)
• Semnornithidae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia (Toucan-barbet)

Anagrams

• rabbet

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

barbet m (plural barbets)

1. barbet (all senses)

Descendants

• → English: barbet
  • → Irish: bairbéad
• → Romanian: barbet

Further reading

• “barbet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

barbet m (plural barbets)

1. (Jersey) barb (in fishhook)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French barbet.

Noun

barbet m (plural barbeți)

1. barbet (dog)

Declension

Declension of barbet

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) barbet	barbetul	(niște) barbeți	barbeții
genitive/dative	(unui) barbet	barbetului	(unor) barbeți	barbeților
vocative	barbetule		barbeților