job's tears

Definition of Job's Tears in English :

1. job's tears

hard pearly seeds of an Asiatic grass; often used as beads

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Job's Tears

noun

1. (functioning as singular)

a tropical Asian grass, Coix lacryma-jobi, cultivated for its white beadlike modified leaves, which contain edible seeds

2. (functioning as plural)

the beadlike structures of this plant, used as rosary or ornamental beads

noun

1.

a coarse, annual tropical grass (Coix lacryma-jobi) which bears hard, beadlike structures (modified leaves) containing edible grains

plural noun

2.

the beads, often used ornamentally

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.