Search Result for "desmodium gyrans":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. erect tropical Asian shrub whose small lateral leaflets rotate on their axes and jerk up and down under the influence of sunshine;
[syn: telegraph plant, semaphore plant, Codariocalyx motorius, Desmodium motorium, Desmodium gyrans]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Moving \Mov"ing\, a. 1. Changing place or posture; causing motion or action; as, a moving car, or power. [1913 Webster] 2. Exciting movement of the mind or feelings; adapted to move the sympathies, passions, or affections; touching; pathetic; as, a moving appeal. [1913 Webster] I sang an old moving story. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster] Moving force (Mech.), a force that accelerates, retards, or deflects the motion of a body. Moving plant (Bot.), a leguminous plant (Desmodium gyrans); -- so called because its leaflets have a distinct automatic motion. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Telegraph plant \Telegraph plant\ (Bot.), A tick trefoil (Meibomia gyrans formerly Desmodium gyrans), native of the East Indies; it is a leguminous plant whose lateral leaflets jerk up and down like the arms of a semaphore, and also rotate on their axes. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Desmodium gyrans n 1: erect tropical Asian shrub whose small lateral leaflets rotate on their axes and jerk up and down under the influence of sunshine [syn: telegraph plant, semaphore plant, Codariocalyx motorius, Desmodium motorium, Desmodium gyrans]