| 单词 | Desmodium gyrans |
| 释义 | Desmodium gyrans (once / 358161 pages) n WORD FAMILY Desmodium gyrans USAGE EXAMPLESAmong spontaneous movements the most singular are those of Desmodium gyrans of India, sometimes called Telegraph-plant, which is cultivated on account of this action. Gray, Asa, The Elements of Botany—For Beginner...(2010) The sensitive plants close their leaves when touched, and the leaflets of Desmodium gyrans are continually revolving. Lubbock, John, Sir, The Beauties of Nature—and the Wond...(2010) Desmodium gyrans.—An interesting plant of the pea family, called the moving plant, on account of the rotatory motion of the leaflets. Saunders, William, Catalogue of Economic Plants in the...(2010) n erect tropical Asian shrub whose small lateral leaflets rotate on their axes and jerk up and down under the influence of sunshine Syn|Hyper Codariocalyx motorius, Desmodium motorium, semaphore plant, telegraph plant bush, shrub a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems |
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