touch-me-not (n.)

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

    [ Syn: jewelweed , ladys earrings , orange balsam , celandine , impatiens capensis ]

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

    [ Syn: squirting cucumber , exploding cucumber , ecballium elaterium ]

  3. 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 ]

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