sensitive plant

Definition of Sensitive Plant in English :

Noun

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

2. mimosa sensitiva, sensitive plant

semi-climbing prickly evergreen shrub of tropical America having compound leaves sensitive to light and touch

mimosa sensitiva

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Sensitive Plant

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noun

1.

a tropical American mimosa plant, Mimosa pudica, the leaflets and stems of which fold if touched

2.

any similar plant, such as the leguminous plant Cassia nictitans of E North America

3. informal

a person who is easily upset

Sensitive Plant

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a tropical American plant (Mimosa pudica) of the mimosa family, with a spiny stem, minute, purplish flowers in spherical clusters, and leaflets that fold and leafstalks that droop at the slightest touch

Sensitive Plant

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n.

1. A shrubby plant (Mimosa pudica) in the pea family, native to tropical America, having mauve flower heads and bipinnately compound leaves with leaflets that fold and droop when touched. Also called touch-me-not.

2. Any of various similar plants, such as Chamaecrista nictitans.

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