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Barbed vs Forkhead - What's the difference?

barbed | forkhead |

As an adjective barbed

is having barbs.

As a verb barbed

is (barb).

As a noun forkhead is

(obsolete) an arrow with a barbed tip.

barbed

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having barbs
  • (heraldry) Bearded (also applied to roses).
  • (of a horse) Accoutered with defensive armor; barded.
    • (Sir Walter Raleigh)

    Verb

    (head)
  • (barb)

    • Derived terms

    * barbed wire

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    forkhead

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An arrow with a barbed tip.
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.5:
  • *:With that at him a quiv'ring dart he threw, / With so fell force, and villeinous despite, / That through his haberjeon the forkehead flew, / And through the linked mayles empierced quite [...].
  • (biochemistry) A sequence of amino acids that forms a motif, in FOX proteins, that binds to DNA