Mexican jumping bean

English

Noun

Mexican jumping bean (plural Mexican jumping beans)

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.

Translations

seed of a Sebastiania shrub with a hatched moth larva

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