| slovo | definícia |
Desmodium gyrans
(gcide) | Moving \Mov"ing\, a.
1. Changing place or posture; causing motion or action; as, a
moving car, or power.
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2. Exciting movement of the mind or feelings; adapted to move
the sympathies, passions, or affections; touching;
pathetic; as, a moving appeal.
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I sang an old moving story. --Coleridge.
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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.
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Desmodium gyrans
(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.
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desmodium gyrans
(wn) | 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] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
Desmodium gyrans
(gcide) | 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]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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