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Touch-me-not   /tətʃ-mi-nɑt/   Listen
Touch-me-not

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





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"Touch-me-not" Quotes from Famous Books



... I've tuned my sad bazoo, Stringing my pipe-dream off as it occurred, And as I've tipped the straight talk every word, If you don't like it you know what to do. Perhaps you think I've handed out to you An idle jest, a touch-me-not, absurd As any sky-blue-pink canary bird, Billed for a record ...
— The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum • Wallace Irwin


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