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Significats de touch-me-not en anglès
portuguès
dormideira 
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.
Veure'n mésportuguès
ecballium Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched.
Sinònims
Examples for "sensitive plant"
Examples for "sensitive plant"
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Our temperament is nervous we are a sensitive plant, and want care.
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Genius is like the sensitive plant; it shrinks from the touch.
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The sensitive plant has indigestible seeds-sothey say-andit will flourish for ever.
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He shrank back at the slightest touch like a sensitive plant.
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Josephine drew back at this brusque reply like a sensitive plant.
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Even that humble plant, 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 humble plant.
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By a humble plant or two.
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Compared with the long past of this humble plant, all the history of civilized men is but an episode.
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The foliage of this humble plant is simply green but most have the spots and some have spectacular silver marbling.
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It had no entangling ties-ithad no seeds of desire and action planted in previous lives, which were pressing forward toward expression in His life.
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A somewhat analogous structure occurs in Mimosa pudica and some other plants.
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This was observed with Desmodium gyrans and Mimosa pudica.
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A polyphasic study was conducted with 11 strains trapped by Mimosa pudica and Phaseolus vulgaris grown in soils of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest.
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We have seen that a leaf of Mimosa pudica 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 Mimosa pudica and of Clianthus Dampieri rise up almost vertically at night and approach each other closely.
North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil.
Ús de touch-me-not en anglès
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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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I didn't know you were a touch-me-not.
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You fierce, wild, touch-me-not thing, he roared.
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I went into the garden and gathered every ripe touch-me-not pod I could find, and all the portulaca.
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You know, old man, you have a sort of horribly lordly, touch-me-not air about you when you choose.
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In the twilight, we now and then, to support ourselves, snatched at the touch-me-not stem of some ancient sweet-brier.
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Over his tender-heartedness, as I saw him in the old days, played delicious eccentricities, phosphorescent, fitful, touch-me-not antics of feeling.
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Some call it Speckled Jewels, for the bright blossoms are spotted with dark purple; and some, Touch-me-not.