a large-headed, brightly coloured fruit-eating bird that has a stout bill with tufts of bristles at the base. Barbets are found on all continents, especially in the tropics 须鴷,拟鴷鸟
Family Capitonidae: numerous genera and species 须鴷科:众多属种
语源
late 16th cent. (denoting a poodle until the early 19th cent): from French, from barbe 'beard' (see barb). The current sense dates from the early 19th cent