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interbarb

interbarb adjective: between barbs.

Adjective

interbarb (not comparable)

  1. Between barbs.
    • During fieldwork we observed that both species of mites usually lie along the rachis of the feather, and do not occupy the sides of the barbs (except in highly parasitized hosts), suggesting that the body length should match the interbarb width.2015 December 10, “Niche Partitioning of Feather Mites within a Seabird Host, Calonectris borealis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of interbarb

From inter- + barb.

Questions about interbarb

What does interbarb mean?
Interbarb means between barbs.
What part of speech is interbarb?
Interbarb is an adjective.

Words near interbarb in the dictionary

  1. interbacterial
  2. interbacterially
  3. interband
  4. interbands
  5. interbank
  6. interbarb
  7. interbasin
  8. interbasinal
  9. interbasins
  10. interbatch
  11. interbeacon

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