job's tears

1. 1.

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

   Broaderseed

Questions about job's tears

What does job's tears mean?

job's tears means "hard pearly seeds of an Asiatic grass; often used as beads".

Is job's tears a common word?

job's tears is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.