barba

American  

[bahr-buh] / ˈbɑr bə /

noun

Medicine/Medical.

1. the beard.

2. a hair of the head.

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Etymology

Origin of barba

< New Latin, Latin: beard

Example Sentences

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barba

The island was reputedly named after the hairy tendrils of its banyan trees: barba dos is Portuguese for "double-bearded".

From The Guardian ● Jul. 20, 2012

You could have judged at once how he would shave his neighbours, when you saw the celerity, the completeness with which he shaved himself,—a forestroke and a backstroke, and /tondenti barba cadebat/.

From My Novel — Volume 05 by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

K. Manoel de Mello gives a fairer estimate in the witty phrase, "Chronista antigo, tão candido de penna, como de barba."

From The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea Vol. I by Gomes Eannes de Azurara

They are rounded in the species Hydnum imbricatum, sometimes compressed in Hydnum repandum, sometimes terminating in hairs or filaments, as in Hydnum barba Jovis, or very much divided, as in Hydnum fimbriatum.

From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Thomas Taylor

They swear per Bacco perpetually in common discourse; and once I saw a gentleman in the heat of conversation blush at the recollection that he had said barba Fove, where he meant God Almighty.

From Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I by Hester Lynch Piozzi