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Touch-me-not

noun

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.

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

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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Words linked to "Touch-me-not" : mimosa, genus Mimosa, gourd vine, gourd, genus Ecballium, herb, Ecballium, genus Impatiens, herbaceous plant