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erect tropical Asian shrub whose small lateral leaflets rotate on their axes and jerk up and down under the influence of sunshine

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  1. n. erect tropical Asian shrub whose small lateral leaflets rotate on their axes and jerk up and down under the influence of sunshine
  2. 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.
  3. An East Indian tick trefoil (Meibomia gyrans), whose lateralleaflets jerk up and down like the arms of a semaphore, and alsorotate on their axes.