touch-me-not
1. 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 • Syn: sensitive plant, shame plant, live-and-die, humble plant, action plant, Mimosa pudica • Hypernyms: mimosa • Member Holonyms: genus Mimosa 2. North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil • Syn: jewelweed, lady's earrings, orange balsam, celandine, Impatiens capensis • Hypernyms: herb, herbaceous plant • Member Holonyms: genus Impatiens 3. Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched • Syn: squirting cucumber, exploding cucumber, Ecballium elaterium • Hypernyms: gourd, gourd vine • Member Holonyms: Ecballium, genus Ecballium
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