Job'stears

Job'stears
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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