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Mexican jumping bean

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Mexican jumping bean: see spurge spurge , common name for members of the Euphorbiaceae, a family of herbs, shrubs, and trees of greatly varied structure and almost cosmopolitan distribution, although most species are tropical. In the United States the family is most common in the Southeast.
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Since streaming video and even Flash were still in their infancy, web designers settled for simply making the elements on their pages move like Mexican jumping beans.
In fact, he arrives in a bulldozer and does more body-punishing acrobatics than any of his suaver, older predecessors by chasing a gang of villains across a construction site in Madagascar like a Mexican jumping bean.
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