interbarb
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]interbarb (not comparable)
- (zoology) Between barbs.
- 2015 December 10, “Niche Partitioning of Feather Mites within a Seabird Host, Calonectris borealis”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- During fieldwork we observed that both species of mites usually lie along the rachis of the feather, and do not occupy the sides of the barbs (except in highly parasitized hosts), suggesting that the body length should match the interbarb width.