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TELEGRAPH PLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does telegraph plant mean? 

TELEGRAPH PLANT (noun)
  The noun TELEGRAPH PLANT has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: TELEGRAPH PLANT used as a noun is very rare.


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TELEGRAPH PLANT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Codariocalyx motorius; Desmodium gyrans; Desmodium motorium; semaphore plant; telegraph plant

Hypernyms ("telegraph plant" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("telegraph plant" is a member of...):

Codariocalyx; genus Codariocalyx (used in some classifications for plants usually included in genus Desmodium)


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