| Mimosa pudica | | |
| n. (plant) | 1. action plant, humble plant, live-and-die, mimosa pudica, sensitive plant, shame plant, touch-me-not | prostrate or semi-erect subshrub of tropical America, and Australia; heavily armed with recurved thorns and having sensitive soft grey-green leaflets that fold and droop at night or when touched or cooled. |
| ~ genus mimosa | genus of spiny woody shrubs or trees; named for their apparent imitation of animal sensitivity to light and heat and movement. |
| ~ mimosa | any of various tropical shrubs or trees of the genus Mimosa having usually yellow flowers and compound leaves. |
| touch-me-not | | |
| n. (plant) | 1. celandine, impatiens capensis, jewelweed, lady's earrings, orange balsam, touch-me-not | North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil. |
| ~ herb, herbaceous plant | a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests. |
| ~ genus impatiens | annual or perennial herbs with stems more or less succulent; cosmopolitan except for South America, Australia, and New Zealand. |
| n. (plant) | 2. ecballium elaterium, exploding cucumber, squirting cucumber, touch-me-not | Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched. |
| ~ gourd vine, gourd | any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds. |
| ~ ecballium, genus ecballium | exploding cucumber; squirting cucumber. |
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