| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun | 1. Hard pearly seeds of an Asiatic grass; often used as beads.[Wordnet]. | |
| Expression | 1. (Bot.), a kind of grass (Coix Lacryma), with hard, shining, pearly grains.[Websters]. | |
Sources: WordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) | Top | |
Common Expressions: Job's tears
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Job's tears | 1: (Bot.), a kind of grass (Coix Lacryma), with hard, shining, pearly grains. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: Hard pearly seeds of an Asiatic grass; often used as beads. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Job's Tears | Job's Tears (Coix lacryma-jobi), also known as Chinese pearl barley, is a tall tropical plant of the family Poaceae (grass family) native to East Asia and Malaya but elsewhere cultivated in gardens as an annual. It has been naturalized in the southern United States and the New World tropics. (references) | ||
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