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English noun: touch-me-not

1. touch-me-not (plant) North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil


Synonymscelandine, Impatiens capensis, jewelweed, lady's earrings, orange balsam


Broader (hypernym)herb, herbaceous plant


Member meronymgenus Impatiens

2. touch-me-not (plant) Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched


SynonymsEcballium elaterium, exploding cucumber, squirting cucumber


Broader (hypernym)gourd, gourd vine


Member meronymEcballium, genus Ecballium

3. touch-me-not (plant) 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


Synonymsaction plant, humble plant, live-and-die, Mimosa pudica, sensitive plant, shame plant


Broader (hypernym)mimosa


Member meronymgenus Mimosa









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