English Dictionary

Mexican jumping bean

名詞

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.

日本語の意味

セバスチア属の低木の種子で、蛾（Cydia deshaisiana）が産んだ卵から孵化した幼虫が内部に存在し、その動きによって種子自体が動く現象が見られるもの

At the museum's nature table, a Mexican jumping bean rolled across the cloth as the larva inside twitched.

博物館の自然コーナーのテーブルで、ガの幼虫が内部で孵化して動くことで跳ねるセバスチアニア属の種子が布の上を転がった。

意味（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.

Mexican jumping beans （ plural ）