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TOUCH-ME-NOT





Definition:

  1. [noun] North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil
    Synonyms: jewelweed, lady's earrings, orange balsam, celandine, Impatiens capensis

  2. [noun] Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched
    Synonyms: squirting cucumber, exploding cucumber, Ecballium elaterium

  3. [noun] 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
    Synonyms: sensitive plant, shame plant, live-and-die, humble plant, action plant, Mimosa pudica

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