fairy beads
informal (now rare )
noun
The disc-shaped stem ossicles of fossil crinoids (encrinites).
Origin
Mid 18th century.
- aristocratic
- aristocratically
- Aristophanes
- Aristotelian
- Aristotelian logic
- aristotle
- Aristotle's lantern
- Arita
- arith.
- arith
- arithmetic
- arithmetical
- arithmetically
- arithmetical ratio
- arithmetician
- arithmetic logic unit
- arithmetic mean
- arithmetic progression
- arithmetic series
- arithmetic unit
- arithmetise
- arithmetize
- -arium
- Ariz.
- Arizona