semaphore plant

What does semaphore plant mean?

semaphore plant 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 semaphore plant?

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

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