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Job’s tears

Job's tears [ jbz trz ]


noun  (plural Job's tears) 
Definition:
 
tropical grass plant: a grass plant with sword-shaped leaves and hard white spherical seeds that are used as beads. Native to: tropical Asia.  Latin name Coix lacryma-jobi.



plural noun 
Definition:
 
white seeds used as beads: the hard white seeds of Job's tears, used as beads and, in East Asia, as a cereal

[< its round shiny leaves]
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