| slovo | definícia |
telegraph plant
(encz) | telegraph plant, n: |
Telegraph plant
(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.] |
telegraph plant
(wn) | telegraph plant
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 |
Telegraph plant
(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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