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.
Our temperament is nervous we are a sensitiveplant, and want care.
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Genius is like the sensitiveplant; it shrinks from the touch.
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The sensitiveplant has indigestible seeds-sothey say-andit will flourish for ever.
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He shrank back at the slightest touch like a sensitiveplant.
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Josephine drew back at this brusque reply like a sensitiveplant.
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I've often been amused at and have admired your touch-me-not style.
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The children had a subdued and touch-me-not air that reminded Honora of her own youth.
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Yes; my motto with men is touch-me-not, and it is your own fault if I'm fierce.
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He does have rather a touch-me-not, speak-to-me-never manner.
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The mast of the weather-vane boat reminds him of a specific plant, the touch-me-not, or impatiens noli-tangere.
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Even that humbleplant, the cabbage, has been invested with some mystery.
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But this may be only a poetical device to cast a mystic glamour over the humbleplant.
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By a humbleplant or two.
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Compared with the long past of this humbleplant, all the history of civilized men is but an episode.
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The foliage of this humbleplant is simply green but most have the spots and some have spectacular silver marbling.
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A somewhat analogous structure occurs in Mimosapudica and some other plants.
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This was observed with Desmodium gyrans and Mimosapudica.
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A polyphasic study was conducted with 11 strains trapped by Mimosapudica and Phaseolus vulgaris grown in soils of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest.
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We have seen that a leaf of Mimosapudica continued to move in the ordinary manner, though somewhat more simply, until it withered and died.
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Secondly, according to Ramey**, the cotyledons of Mimosapudica and of Clianthus Dampieri rise up almost vertically at night and approach each other closely.
Ús de action plant en anglès
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It had no entangling ties-ithad no seeds of desire and actionplanted in previous lives, which were pressing forward toward expression in His life.