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Definition: Moving plant
Moving
\Mov"ing\, a.
1. Changing place or posture; causing motion or action; as, a
moving car, or power.
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2. Exciting movement of the mind or feelings; adapted to move
the sympathies, passions, or affections; touching;
pathetic; as, a moving appeal.
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I sang an old moving story. --Coleridge.
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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.
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