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Job's-tears

[johbz-teerz]
–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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