The Collaborative International Dictionary
Moving \Mov"ing\, a.
Changing place or posture; causing motion or action; as, a moving car, or power.
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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.
Usage examples of "moving plant".
There were cheers, there were bouquets tossed at the hand held rope perimeter which hastily moving plant security established.
After a few minutes, the bushes around the by now large and moving plant began to wilt.
Whenever anyone hinted to him that he might start paying rent or taxes or something he would murmur quietly that he was thinking of moving plant and payroll to Puerto Rico, and then there would be no more hinting for a while.