Mexican jumping bean

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

Finnish: meksikolainen hyppypapu
French: pois sauteur (fr) m

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