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Mexican jumping beans

Mexican jumping beans is the plural of Mexican jumping bean.

Meaning of Mexican jumping bean

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.
    Synonyms:
    jumping bean

Questions about Mexican jumping beans

What is Mexican jumping beans the plural of?
Mexican jumping beans is the plural of Mexican jumping bean.

Words near Mexican jumping beans in the dictionary

  1. Mexican hats
  2. Mexican hog
  3. Mexican hogs
  4. Mexican influenza
  5. Mexican jumping bean
  6. Mexican jumping beans
  7. Mexican lac
  8. Mexican lasagna
  9. Mexican lasagnas
  10. Mexican marigold
  11. Mexican marigolds

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