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# barbel

«barbel» in Mova's school dictionary: **a freshwater fish with whisker-like feelers at its mouth…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (barbels)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A barbel is a freshwater fish with whisker-like feelers at its mouth, which it uses to find food on the river bed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barbel/#m1)

2) The barbels are these thin feelers themselves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barbel/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a barbel is a fish that talks and comments on the people it sees above the water

### examples

- The barbel lay still on the river bed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barbel/#x1)
- A barbel has feelers like whiskers near its mouth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barbel/#x2)
- The fishermen caught a large barbel in the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barbel/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «barbel» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/barbel/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.