sensitive-plant
Nouns
- (n) 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 action plant, humble plant, live-and-die, Mimosa pudica, shame plant, touch-me-not,
- (n) semi-climbing prickly evergreen shrub of tropical America having compound leaves sensitive to light and touch Mimosa sensitiva,