meibomia gyrans

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meibomia gyrans - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Telegraph plant \Telegraph plant\ (Bot.),
     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.]