touch-me-not

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noun

1. 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
• Syn:
sensitive plant, shame plant, live-and-die, humble plant, action plant, Mimosa pudica
• Hypernyms:
mimosa
• Member Holonyms:
genus Mimosa
2. North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers;
grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil
• Syn:
jewelweed, lady's earrings, orange balsam, celandine, Impatiens capensis
• Hypernyms:
herb, herbaceous plant
• Member Holonyms:
genus Impatiens
3. Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched
• Syn:
squirting cucumber, exploding cucumber, Ecballium elaterium
• Hypernyms:
gourd, gourd vine
• Member Holonyms:
Ecballium, genus Ecballium

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  sensitive plant, shame plant, live-and-die, humble plant, action plant, Mimosa pudica, squirting cucumber, exploding cucumber, Ecballium elaterium, jewelweed, lady's earrings, orange balsam, celandine, Impatiens capensis