English Explanatory Dictionary

Mexican jumping bean

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A type of seed of a shrub of the genus Sebastiania in which a larva has hatched from an egg laid there by a moth (Cydia deshaisiana, the movement of the larva causing the seed to move around.

Word forms

Mexican jumping bean Mexican jumping beans
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