Found 3 items, similar to touch-me-not.
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: touch-me-not
touch-me-not
n 1: North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange
flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil [syn:
jewelweed,
lady's earrings,
orange balsam,
celandine,
Impatiens capensis
]
2: Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels
its seeds and juice violently when touched [syn:
squirting cucumber
,
exploding cucumber,
Ecballium elaterium]
3: prostrate or semi-erect subshrub of tropical America, and
Australia; heavily armed with recurved thorns and having
sensitive soft gray-green leaflets that fold and droop at
night or when touched or cooled [syn:
sensitive plant,
shame plant
,
live-and-die,
humble plant,
action plant,
Mimosa pudica
]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: touch-me-not
Impatiens
\Im*pa"ti*ens\ ([i^]m*p[=a]"sh[i^]*[e^]nz), prop. n.
[L., impatient.] (Bot.)
A genus of plants, several species of which have very
beautiful flowers; -- so called because the elastic capsules
burst when touched, and scatter the seeds with considerable
force. Called also
touch-me-not,
jewelweed, and
snapweed.
Impatiens Balsamina (sometimes called
lady's slipper
) is the common garden balsam.
[1913 Webster]