Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Barbellate \Bar"bel*late\, a. [See 1st {Barb}.] (Bot.)
   Having short, stiff hairs, often barbed at the point. --Gray.

Source : WordNet®

barbellate
     adj : having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines
           or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly
           mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous
           whiskers" [syn: {barbed}, {briary}, {briery}, {bristled},
            {bristly}, {burred}, {burry}, {prickly}, {setose}, {setaceous},
            {spiny}, {thorny}]