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mexican jumping bean

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.69 in modern English

Syllables
mex-i-can jump-ing bean
IPA
43
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Inflected Forms

Mexican jumping beans (plural)

Synonyms

jumping bean jumping seed

Questions

What does mexican jumping bean mean?
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.

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