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Touch-me-not

Touch-me-not Meaning & Definition
Touch-me-not Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Touch-me-not?

[n] prostrate or semi-erect subshrub of tropical America, and Australia; heavily armed with recurved thorns and having sensitive soft gray-green leaflets that fold and droop at night or when touched or cooled
[n] Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched
[n] North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil

Synonyms | Synonyms for Touch-me-not: action plant | celandine | Ecballium elaterium | exploding cucumber | humble plant | Impatiens capensis | jewelweed | lady's earrings | live-and-die | Mimosa pudica | orange balsam | sensitive plant | shame plant | squirting cucumber

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See Also | Ecballium | genus Ecballium | genus Impatiens | genus Mimosa | gourd | gourd vine | herb | herbaceous plant | mimosa

Touch-me-not In Webster's Dictionary

\Touch"-me-not`\, n. (Bot.) (a) See {Impatiens}. (b) Squirting cucumber. See under {Cucumber}.

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