(definition) by Webster 1913 Thu Jan 19 2006 at 6:17:28

Telegraph plant.

An East Indian tick trefoil (Meibomia gyrans), whose lateral leaflets jerk up and down like the arms of a semaphore, and also rotate on their axes.

 

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