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Telegraph plant

Telegraph plant Meaning & Definition
Telegraph plant Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Telegraph plant?

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

Synonyms | Synonyms for Telegraph plant: Codariocalyx motorius | Desmodium gyrans | Desmodium motorium | semaphore plant

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See Also | bush | Codariocalyx | genus Codariocalyx | shrub

Telegraph plant In Webster's Dictionary

\Telegraph plant\ An East Indian tick trefoil (Meibomia gyrans), whose lateral leaflets jerk up and down like the arms of a semaphore, and also rotate on their axes.

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