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Job's-tears

  [johbz-teerz]
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–noun
1. (used with a plural verb) the hard, nearly spherical bracts that surround the female flowers of an Asian grass, Coix lacryma-jobi, and which when ripe are used as beads.
2. (used with a singular verb) the grass itself.
Origin:
1590–1600
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Job's tears  
pl.n.  

  1. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) A tropical Asian grass (Coix lacryma-jobi) having white beadlike grains.

  2. (used with a pl. verb) The grains of this plant, eaten or used as ornamental beads.

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