telegraph plant

What does telegraph plant mean?

telegraph 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 telegraph plant?

Close synonyms include semaphore 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 telegraph plant a common word?

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