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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) jumping bean
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.

Etymology: (1885–90)

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1. (noun) jumping bean, jumping seed, 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 tumble

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