BLACK BEAD

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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

Synonyms:

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

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Nouns denoting plants

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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