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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
barbule - noun [capitalized] [NL.] A large genus of true mosses characterized by terminal, erect fruit, and a peristome of long filiform segments spirally twisted to the left.
- noun [capitalized] [NL.] A genus of bivalve mollusks.
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