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Meanings of mimosa pudica in English
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.
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Usage of mimosa pudica in English
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Opposition and indifference, which stimulate more vigorous natures, affected Chopin as touch does the mimosa pudica, the sensitive plant-theymade him shrink and wither.
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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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Mimosa pudica (Leguminosae).-Thecotyledons rise up vertically at night, so as to close together.
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Mimosa pudica.-Thecotyledons were expanded for the first time on Nov. 2nd, and stood vertical at night.
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157 Mimosa pudica: circumnutation and nyctitropic movement of main petiole, traced during 34 h. 30 m.
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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.
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Sophora chrysophylla (Tribe 10).-Theleaflets rise at night, and are at the same time directed towards the apex of the leaf, as in Mimosa pudica.
Translations for mimosa pudica
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