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telegraph plant

noun

erect tropical Asian shrub whose small lateral leaflets rotate on their axes and jerk up and down under the influence of sunshine

• Syn: ↑semaphore plant, ↑Codariocalyx motorius, ↑Desmodium motorium, ↑Desmodium gyrans

• Hypernyms: ↑shrub, ↑bush

• Member Holonyms: ↑Codariocalyx, ↑genus Codariocalyx

Useful english dictionary. 2012.