touch-me-not

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touch-me-not Definition

• (n) North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil
• (n) Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched
• (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

touch-me-not Synonyms

• 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
• touch-me-not