Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a bead or some aspect of one.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button

Etymologies

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bead +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Loup de mer is a perfect piece of fish bedded on beadlike Sardinian pasta swollen with hints of saffron, tomato and vinegar.

    Tom Sietsema on enhanced Palena: Dining Room shines, enlarged Cafe loses a pinch of luster Tom Sietsema 2011

  • Back in the attic, I apologized to Johnny and dropped an overflowing fistful of the coarse beadlike chunks onto his chest.

    Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

  • Back in the attic, I apologized to Johnny and dropped an overflowing fistful of the coarse beadlike chunks onto his chest.

    Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

  • Back in the attic, I apologized to Johnny and dropped an overflowing fistful of the coarse beadlike chunks onto his chest.

    Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

  • He pulled it open, revealing a grouping of dark, beadlike bits of metal.

    Mistborn Sanderson_Brandon 2006

  • His face was rugged and wrinkled, and tanned to the tint of old oak; his eyes black, beadlike, and fierce, and a shock of sooty hair escaped from under his battered wide-awake nearly to his shoulders.

    Uncle Silas 2003

  • In the process of rejecting them, Peter would frequently cause them to multiply into little beadlike sequences of actions.

    film flam Larry McMurtry 1987

  • In the process of rejecting them, Peter would frequently cause them to multiply into little beadlike sequences of actions.

    film flam Larry McMurtry 1987

  • In the process of rejecting them, Peter would frequently cause them to multiply into little beadlike sequences of actions.

    film flam Larry McMurtry 1987

  • The beadlike eyes turned, glittering, on all sides; the thin, wicked lips quivered with bad passions; the tiny hands sheathed and unsheathed the little swords and daggers.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various

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