'Telegraph plant' definitions:

Definition of '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: telegraph plant, semaphore plant, Codariocalyx motorius, Desmodium motorium, Desmodium gyrans]

Definition of 'Telegraph plant'

From: GCIDE

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.]

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