1. (noun) North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil

• celandine
• impatiens capensis
• jewelweed
• lady's earrings
• orange balsam

2. (noun) Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched

• ecballium elaterium
• exploding cucumber
• squirting cucumber

3. (noun) 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

• action plant
• humble plant
• live-and-die
• mimosa pudica
• sensitive plant
• shame plant

1. (noun) North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil

• genus impatiens

2. (noun) Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched

• ecballium
• genus ecballium

3. (noun) 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

• genus mimosa

1. (noun) North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil

• herb
• herbaceous plant

2. (noun) Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched

• gourd
• gourd vine

3. (noun) 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

• mimosa