(astronomy) A feature of total solar eclipses. As the moon "grazes" by the sun during a solar eclipse, the rugged lunar limb topography allows beads of sunlight to shine through in some places and not in others.

jequirity bean (Abrus precatorius)

plural of beaded lizard

Any venomous lizard of family Helodermatidae. / Especially, a species of venomous lizard found principally in Mexico and southern Guatemala, Heloderma horridum.

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

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

plural of jumbie bead

plural of bead tree