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Definition of Telegraph plant
1. Noun. Erect tropical Asian shrub whose small lateral leaflets rotate on their axes and jerk up and down under the influence of sunshine.
Group relationships: Codariocalyx, Genus Codariocalyx
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Telegraph Plant
Literary usage of Telegraph plant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Physiological Botany: I. Outlines of the Histology of Phaenogamous Plants by George Lincoln Goodale (1885)
"The telegraph plant. The most surprising instance of rapid spontaneous movement
is that which is exhibited by the lateral leaflets of Desmodium gyrans. ..."
2. An Introduction to Vegetable Physiology by Joseph Reynolds Green (1900)
"Perhaps the most familiar of these is the so-called telegraph plant, Desmodium or
... 13-if THE telegraph plant They can often be made evident by (Desmodium ..."
3. An Introduction to Vegetable Physiology by Joseph Reynolds Green (1907)
"Perhaps the most familiar of these is the so-called telegraph plant, Desmodium
or Hedysarum gyrans. Its leaves are ternate, the terminal leaflet being very ..."
4. Gray's Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray (1885)
"The telegraph plant. The most surprising instance of rapid spontaneous movement
is that which ... telegraph plant."
5. Physiological Botany by George Lincoln ( Goodale (1890)
"The telegraph plant. The most surprising instance of rapid spontaneous movement
is that which is exhibited by the lateral leaflets of Desmodium ..."
6. Economic Value of Electric Light and Power by Allen Ripley Foote (1889)
"THE DYNAMO telegraph plant AT PITTSBURG, PA.* BY WILLIAM MAYER, JR. A novel, as
well as interesting, feature of this instalment is, that the dynamo electric ..."
7. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"They are, in fact, endowed like those of the telegraph plant, with the power of
spontaneous movement, which is arrested when the plant is exposed to light. ..."
8. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The automatic decomposition not unfrequently takes place, as ia the case of the
telegraph plant, at regular intervals, so that the movement ia ..."
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