desmodium motorium

What does desmodium motorium mean?

desmodium motorium 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 motorium?

Close synonyms include telegraph plant, semaphore plant, Codariocalyx motorius, Desmodium gyrans. 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 motorium a common word?

desmodium motorium 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 motorium come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.