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Job’s tears. In the Philippines, the annual grass Job’s-tears (Coix lacryma-jobi) is the source of the nourishing cereal food adlay. The tear-shaped seeds are found on the white or dirty- white female flower clusters, and inside each tear are the edible kernels that have long been used in the Far East for grain. Grown in western nations as an ornamental, the 3- to 6-foot- high, sword-shaped grass is named Job’s-tears after the biblical Job, whose great misfortunes were borne with proverbial pa- tience, but who must have shed many tears. |