Mexican jumping bean

jump′ing bean`

n. the seed of any of certain Mexican plants of the genera Sebastiania and Sapium, of the spurge family: the movements of a moth larva inside the seed cause it to move about or jump. [1885–90]

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Noun

Mexican jumping bean - seed of Mexican shrubs of the genus Sebastiana containing the larva of a moth whose movements cause the bean to jerk or tumblejumping bean, jumping seedgenus Sebastiana, Sebastiana - Mexican spurgesseed - a small hard fruit

Mexican jumping bean

Mexican jumping bean:

see spurgespurge
, common name for members of the Euphorbiaceae, a family of herbs, shrubs, and trees of greatly varied structure and almost cosmopolitan distribution, although most species are tropical. In the United States the family is most common in the Southeast.
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Mexican jumping bean

noun

Synonyms for Mexican jumping bean

noun seed of Mexican shrubs of the genus Sebastiana containing the larva of a moth whose movements cause the bean to jerk or tumble

Synonyms

jumping bean
jumping seed

Related Words

genus Sebastiana
Sebastiana
seed

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