| 单词 | job's tears |
| 释义 | > as lemmasJob's tears Job's tears n. a tall, grain-bearing grass, Coix lacryma-jobi, originating in South-East Asia and naturalized elsewhere; (also) the shiny white teardrop-shaped grains (pseudocarps) produced by this plant, which are used as a cereal and as decorative beads. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants, nuts, seeds, or fruits used as beads or vessels > [noun] > other plants yielding parts used as beads, etc. Job's drops1597 Job's tears1597 coquilla-nut1851 1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 82 In English it is called Iobs Teares or Iobs Drops, for that euery graine resembleth the Drop or Teare that falleth from the eie. 1777 W. Anderson Jrnl. 30 Jan. in J. Cook Jrnls. (1967) III. ii. 792 Of other plants..these are of known sorts viz Gladiolus,..Cudweed, and Jobs tears. 1857 A. Henfrey Elem. Course Bot. 426 Coix Lacryma, the hard grains of which are known by the name of ‘Job's-tears’. 1953 Southwest. Jrnl. Anthropol. 9 305 Job's tears is a native grain crop which..is generally found in higher areas where other grains such as rice and corn will not mature. 1994 New Scientist 19 Mar. 10/1 Job's tears, a grass that normally grows about 60 centimetres tall in the tropics, has become a giant of around 4 metres. < as lemmas |
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