A string of beads used by members of various religions to count prayers, chants or devotions.

Any insect of the family Berothidae.

plural of beaded lacewing

Rhodotypos scandens, a deciduous shrub in the family Rosaceae, with shiny black drupes.

plural of jumbie bead

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see string, bead. / The succulent vine Senecio rowleyanus, which has spherical, fleshy leaves spaced along its stems like beads.

plural of string of beads

plural of angle bead

The moulding screwed to the inner side of a window frame, on the face of the pulley stile, completing the groove in which the inner sash is to slide.

(architecture) A bead worked on or fixed to the angle of any architectural work, especially for protecting an angle of a wall.