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WHITE BEAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does white bead mean? 

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

1. North American herb with white poisonous berriesplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


WHITE BEAD (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

North American herb with white poisonous berries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Actaea alba; doll's eyes; white baneberry; white bead; white cohosh

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

baneberry; cohosh; herb Christopher (a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries)


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