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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
1590–1600
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| Job's-tears | |
| —n | |
| 1. | (functioning as singular) a tropical Asian grass, Coix lacryma-jobi, cultivated for its white beadlike modified leaves, which contain edible seeds |
| 2. | (functioning as plural) the beadlike structures of this plant, used as rosary or ornamental beads |
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