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BLACK BEAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does black bead mean? 

BLACK BEAD (noun)
  The noun BLACK BEAD has 1 sense:

1. erect shrub with small if any spines having racemes of white to yellow flowers followed by curved pointed pods and black shiny seeds; West Indies and Floridaplay

  Familiarity information: BLACK BEAD used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BLACK BEAD (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Erect shrub with small if any spines having racemes of white to yellow flowers followed by curved pointed pods and black shiny seeds; West Indies and Florida

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

black bead; cat's-claw; catclaw; Pithecellobium unguis-cati

Hypernyms ("black bead" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("black bead" is a member of...):

genus Pithecellobium; genus Pithecolobium; Pithecellobium; Pithecolobium (thorny shrubs and trees of tropical and subtropical America and Asia)


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