Moving Plant (Desmodium gyrans), a plant of the natural order Leguminosæ, sub-order Papilionaceæ, a native of India, remarkable, as are also some other species of the same genus, for the spontaneous movement of the leaves. See PLANTS (MOVEMENT OF).
Moving Plant
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 335
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