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Beadle

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Noun

1. beadle

a minor parish official who serves a ceremonial function

2. beadle, george beadle, george wells beadle

United States biologist who discovered how hereditary characteristics are transmitted by genes (1903-1989)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Beadle

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noun
1. 
(formerly, in the Church of England) a minor parish official who acted as an usher and kept order
2. 
(in Scotland) a church official attending on the minister
3. Judaism
a synagogue attendant
See also shammes
4. 
an official in certain British universities and other institutions
noun
George Wells. 1903–89, US biologist, who shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine in 1958 for his work in genetics

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Beadle

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noun
1.  Obsolete
a minor parish officer in the Church of England, who kept order in church
2.  Obsolete
a messenger of a law court

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Beadle

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American geneticist. He shared a 1958 Nobel Prize for demonstrating that each polypeptide is coded for by a specific gene.
n.
A minor parish official formerly employed in an English church to usher and keep order during services.

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