Sensitive plant Meaning, Definition & Usage
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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; action plant; Mimosa pudica; humble plant; shame plant.
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noun semi-climbing prickly evergreen shrub of tropical America having compound leaves sensitive to light and touch
Mimosa sensitiva.
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(Bot.) (a) A leguminous plant (Mimosa pudica , orM. sensitiva , and other allied species), the leaves of which close at the slightest touch.(b) Any plant showing motions after irritation, as the sensitive brier (Schrankia ) of the Southern States, two common American species of Cassia (C. nictitans , andC. Chamæcrista ), a kind of sorrel (Oxalis sensitiva ), etc.
