Jobs-tears
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Job's-tears
(ˈdʒoʊbzˈtɪərz)n.
1. (used with a pl. v.) the hard, spherical bracts that surround the female flowers of an Asian grass, Coix lacryma-jobi, used as beads.
2. (used with a sing. v.) the grass itself.
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