touch-me-not

Definition of Touch-me-not in English :

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Noun

1. celandine, impatiens capensis, jewelweed, lady's earrings, orange balsam, touch-me-not

North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil

2. ecballium elaterium, exploding cucumber, squirting cucumber, touch-me-not

Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched

3. 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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Touch-me-not

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noun

any of several balsaminaceous plants of the genus Impatiens, esp I. noli-me-tangere, having yellow spurred flowers and seed pods that burst open at a touch when ripe

. Also called: noli-me-tangere