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 Mov·ing, a.
 1. Changing place or posture; causing motion or action; as, a moving car, or power.
 2. Exciting movement of the mind or feelings; adapted to move the sympathies, passions, or affections; touching; pathetic; as, a moving appeal.
    I sang an old moving story.   --Coleridge.
 Moving force Mech., a force that accelerates, retards, or deflects the motion of a body.
 Moving plant Bot., a leguminous plant (Desmodium gyrans); -- so called because its leaflets have a distinct automatic motion.

 Telegraph plant Bot., A tick trefoil (Meibomia gyrans formerly Desmodium gyrans), native of the East Indies; it is a leguminous plant whose lateral leaflets jerk up and down like the arms of a semaphore, and also rotate on their axes.
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 Desmodium gyrans
      n : erect tropical Asian shrub whose small lateral leaflets
          rotate on their axes and jerk up and down under the
          influence of sunshine [syn: telegraph plant, semaphore
          plant, Codariocalyx motorius, Desmodium motorium]