English Dictionary

barbet

noun

Any of numerous arboreal birds of the families Capitonidae, Lybiidae, and Megalaimidae, within the order Piciformes. / A dog of a small-bodied breed with long curly hair.

The barbet is a breed of dog known for its curly hair.

意味（1）

Any of numerous arboreal birds of the families Capitonidae, Lybiidae, and Megalaimidae, within the order Piciformes.

意味（2）

A dog of a small-bodied breed with long curly hair.

意味（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.

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.