n., Job's-tears (Coix lachryma-jobi 🌐), a coarse, branched grass closely related to corn, growing in many tropical regions, either wild or cultivated. It is an annual, .3 to 1.8 m high, with long, pointed leaves, and, at stem tips, hard, round, beadlike seeds—black, gray, or white—which are used for leis, mats, food, medicine.
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Jobʻs tears (Coix lachryma - jobi), a coarse, branched grass growing in tropical areas. An annual resembling Indian corn. The seeds or beads are the plantʻs most interesting feature. They are worn for rosaries, sometimes for curative purposes. In Hawaiʻi mats, purses, leis, and so on were also made from the seeds. See pūpū kīlea. (NEAL 80.)
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