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telegraph |
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telegraph key |
telegraph line |
telegraph operator |
telegraph plant
| telegraph pole
| telegraph post
| telegraph wire
| telegrapher
| telegraphese
telegraph plant
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun telegraph plant has 1 sense
- telegraph plant(n = noun.plant) codariocalyx motorius, desmodium gyrans, desmodium motorium, semaphore plant - erect tropical Asian shrub whose small lateral leaflets rotate on their axes and jerk up and down under the influence of sunshine; Array is a member of codariocalyx, genus codariocalyx
is a kind of bush, shrub
CIDE DICTIONARY
telegraph plant,
A tick trefoil (Meibomia gyrans formerly Desmodium gyrans ), native of the East Indies; it is a leguminous plant whose lateral leaflets jerk up and down like the arms of a semaphore, and also rotate on their axes. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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