Usually means: Equipped with sharp, pointed projections.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word barbed:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. barbed: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. barbed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. barbed: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. barbed: Collins English Dictionary
  5. barbed: Vocabulary.com
  6. Barbed, barbed: Wordnik
  7. barbed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. barbed: Wiktionary
  9. barbed: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. barbed: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. barbed: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Barbed, barbed: Dictionary.com
  13. barbed: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Barbed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. barbed: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. barbed: Rhymezone
  17. Barbed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. barbed: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. barbed: Free Dictionary
  20. barbed: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. barbed: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. barbed: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. barbed: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  3. Barbed: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Barbed: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Having barbs.
adjective:  (heraldry)
adjective:  Having barbs of a certain colour (as or similar to an arrow); beared.
adjective:  Having gills or wattles (as a bird); wattled.
adjective:  Having sepals or leaves between the petals (on a rose, etc).
adjective:  (of language, etc.) Deliberately hurtful; biting; caustic.
adjective:  (of a horse) Accoutered with defensive armor; barded.

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