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

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

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 Taylor, Thomas

Comam alere longissimam, ad ipsa usque genua demissam, atque etiam infra, cum barba longiore, quàm, apud ullos hominum.

From A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients by Tyson, Edward

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 — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

It is called by the natives barba de tigre.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Humboldt, Alexander von