beadle English

Meaning beadle meaning

What does beadle mean?

— noun a minor parish official who serves a ceremonial function

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

What other words have the same or similar meaning as beadle?

verger apparitor usher bailiff shames sexton sergeant-at-arms sacristan proctor mace-bearer court usher catchpole assistant to the rabbi

George Wells Beadle George Beadle