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Job's Tears

a corn plant of India.

It is a grass, sometimes rising to the of maize, to which also it is botanically allied. The name is derived from the bluish-white seeds, which are sometimes are also an article of food. Though one of the worst of cereals, it has become almost naturalized in Spain and Portugal.

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