Meaning Of The Word Job's-tears
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Job's-tears in American English
a coarse, annual tropical grass (Coix lacryma-jobi) which bears hard, beadlike structures (modified leaves) containing edible grains the beads, often used ornamentally noun: 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 Job's-tears in British English noun: a tropical Asian grass, Coix lacryma-jobi, cultivated for its white beadlike modified leaves, which contain edible seeds |
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