| desmodium | (n) beggarweed; tick trefoil, Syn. genus Desmodium |
| beggarweed | (n) West Indian forage plant cultivated in southern United States as forage and to improve soil, Syn. Desmodium purpureum, Desmodium tortuosum |
| telegraph plant | (n) erect tropical Asian shrub whose small lateral leaflets rotate on their axes and jerk up and down under the influence of sunshine, Syn. semaphore plant, Desmodium motorium, Desmodium gyrans, Codariocalyx motorius |