touch-me-not
Nouns
- (n) North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil celandine, Impatiens capensis, jewelweed, lady's earrings, orange balsam,
- (n) Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched Ecballium elaterium, exploding cucumber, squirting cucumber,
- (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, sensitive plant, shame plant,