touch-me-not English

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What does touch-me-not mean?

touch-me-not

— noun (= sensitive 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

— noun (= squirting cucumber) Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched

— noun (= jewelweed) North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil

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touch-me-not English » English

squirting cucumber

shame plant

sensitive plant

orange balsam

live-and-die

lady’s earrings

jewelweed

humble plant

exploding cucumber

celandine

action plant

Mimosa pudica

Impatiens capensis

Ecballium elaterium

impatines

impatiens

Ecballium