barbet

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

barbet (plural barbets)

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.(Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)
   • 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.

• (dog) French Water Dog

• → Irish: bairbéad

• 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)

• rabbet

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

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barbet m (plural barbets)

1. barbet (all senses)

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

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

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barbet m (plural barbets)

1. (Jersey) barb (in fishhook)

Borrowed from French barbet.

barbet m (plural barbeți)

1. barbet (dog)