marbles

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Smaller, thinner filaments, known as barbules, branched straight off each of these barbs.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2021

Their structure suggests that the two finest tiers of branching in modern feathers, known as barbs and barbules, arose before the rachis formed.

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2016

The feather of the bird you see out your window today has a central shaft, or “rachis” that branches out into a series of barbs that branch again into fine barbules.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 8, 2016

Branching from the rachis are smaller shafts called barbs, and then branching from the barbs are even smaller filaments called barbules.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2016

Each barb had hundreds of little hooks or barbules on it, by means of which the barbs of the feather were held together.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White