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Touch-me-not   /tətʃ-mi-nɑt/   Listen
Touch-me-not

noun
1.
North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil.  Synonyms: celandine, Impatiens capensis, jewelweed, lady's earrings, orange balsam.
2.
Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched.  Synonyms: Ecballium elaterium, exploding cucumber, squirting cucumber.
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.  Synonyms: action plant, humble plant, live-and-die, Mimosa pudica, sensitive plant, shame plant.






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"Touch-me-not" Quotes from Famous Books



... facile blushing! She was angry with herself. It was not as if she were really embarrassed or confused, it came simply from that kind of physical sensitiveness which causes the closing of leaves in those plants we call "touch-me-not." ...
— Juggernaut • Alice Campbell

... on in advance and was not by any means ignorant of the flora of the neighbourhood, had secured three specimens, a late Valerian, an early spotted Touch-me-not, and a little bunch of Blue-eyed-grass. Coristine took them from her with thanks, told her their names and stowed them away in his candle box. The zeal to discover and add to the collection grew upon all ...
— Two Knapsacks - A Novel of Canadian Summer Life • John Campbell

... hear my lessons? Father? Well, I guess not! Besides, it wasn't my fault. I was there all ready. It wasn't my blame that he wasn't there to hear me. But he might remember and come back. Well, if he did, I'd be there. So I went to one of those bookcases and pulled out a touch-me-not book from behind the glass door. Then I sat down and read till the ...
— Mary Marie • Eleanor H. Porter

... If she's such a touch-me-not, she's no fun at all! But every-body's like that with their first baby! Silly! Fussy! ...
— Patty and Azalea • Carolyn Wells

... be with the nervous little seed-pods of the touch-me-not, which children ever love to pop and see the seeds fly, as they do from balsam pods in grandmother's garden, they still startle with the suddenness of their volley. Touch the delicate hair-trigger at the end of a capsule, and the lightning response of the ...
— Wild Flowers Worth Knowing • Neltje Blanchan et al



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