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telegraph plant

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.95 in modern English

Syllables
tele-graph -plant
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Codariocalyx motorius, a tropical Asian shrub, one of the few plants capable of rapid movement.

Etymology

So called because the jerking motions of the leaves are thought to resemble signalling.

Inflected Forms

telegraph plants (plural)

Synonyms

semaphore plant codariocalyx motorius desmodium motorium desmodium gyrans

Questions

What does telegraph plant mean?
Codariocalyx motorius, a tropical Asian shrub, one of the few plants capable of rapid movement.
Where does telegraph plant come from?
So called because the jerking motions of the leaves are thought to resemble signalling.

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