| 单词 | telegraph plant |
| 释义 | > as lemmastelegraph plant telegraph plant n. a tropical Asian shrub, Codariocalyx motorius (formerly Desmodium gyrans) (family Fabaceae), remarkable for the spontaneous movements of its leaflets, reminiscent of signalling; also called moving plant, semaphore plant. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > non-British plants or herbs > [noun] > Asian or Indian moving plant1787 elephant's foot1789 Indian lettuce1791 Sonerila1846 telegraph plant1856 whirling plant1866 mitsuba1890 1856 Horticulturalist May 243 It is the Desmodium gyrans, usually called the Moving Plant, and, in Bengal, the Telegraph Plant. 1942 Pop. Sci. Apr. 113/2 Leaves of the telegraph plant, Desmodium gyrans, especially the two small ones on each shoot, rise and fall briskly and even sweep more or less in a circle! 2012 A. Johnsson et al. in A. Volkov Plant Electrophysiol. iv. 86 The plant..is popularly known as ‘The Telegraph Plant’ (or the ‘semaphore plant’) because of the typical movements of its leaflets. < as lemmas |
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