black bead

1. 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 Florida

   Synonymscat's-clawcatclawPithecellobium unguis-cati

   Broadershrub

   Part ofPithecellobium

Questions about black bead

What does black bead mean?

black bead means "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".

What is another word for black bead?

Close synonyms include cat's-claw, catclaw, Pithecellobium unguis-cati. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is black bead a common word?

black bead is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.