SEMAPHORE PLANT

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Meaning:

Erect tropical Asian shrub whose small lateral leaflets rotate on their axes and jerk up and down under the influence of sunshine

Synonyms:

Codariocalyx motorius; Desmodium gyrans; Desmodium motorium; semaphore plant; telegraph plant

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("semaphore plant" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("semaphore plant" is a member of...):

Codariocalyx; genus Codariocalyx (used in some classifications for plants usually included in genus Desmodium)

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