Mexican jumping bean
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English
Noun
Mexican jumping bean (plural Mexican jumping beans)
- 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.
Translations
seed of a Sebastiania shrub with a hatched moth larva
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