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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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Words linked to "Touch-me-not" :   Ecballium, mimosa, genus Impatiens, herbaceous plant, genus Mimosa, genus Ecballium, gourd vine, herb, gourd


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