Humble plant Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun 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
live-and-die; touch-me-not; sensitive plant; action plant; Mimosa pudica; shame plant.

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(Bot.), a species of sensitive plant, of the genus Mimosa (M. sensitiva).

Webster 1913

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