JOB'S TEARS

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Job's tears mean? 

• JOB'S TEARS (noun)
  The noun JOB'S TEARS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: JOB'S TEARS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JOB'S TEARS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Job's tears" is a kind of...):

seed (a small hard fruit)

 Context examples 

An injectable microemulsion of a purified oil extracted from the seeds of the traditional Chinese medicinal herb Coix lacryma-jobi (Job's tears), with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Kanglaite, NCI Thesaurus)