desmodium gyrans

What does desmodium gyrans mean?

desmodium gyrans means "erect tropical Asian shrub whose small lateral leaflets rotate on their axes and jerk up and down under the influence of sunshine".

What is another word for desmodium gyrans?

Close synonyms include telegraph plant, semaphore plant, Codariocalyx motorius, Desmodium motorium. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is desmodium gyrans a common word?

desmodium gyrans is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for desmodium gyrans come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.