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Significados de shame plant en inglés

portugués
dormideira
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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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      Examples for "sensitive plant"
      Examples for "sensitive plant"
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      Our temperament is nervous we are a sensitive plant, and want care.
      Charlotte's Inheritance
      2
      Genius is like the sensitive plant; it shrinks from the touch.
      The History of Emily Montague
      3
      The sensitive plant has indigestible seeds-sothey say-andit will flourish for ever.
      Vailima Letters / Being Correspondence Addressed by Robert Louis...
      4
      He shrank back at the slightest touch like a sensitive plant.
      Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 1
      5
      Josephine drew back at this brusque reply like a sensitive plant.
      White Lies
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      I've often been amused at and have admired your touch-me-not style.
      My Brilliant Career
      2
      The children had a subdued and touch-me-not air that reminded Honora of her own youth.
      A Modern Chronicle — Volume 02
      3
      Yes; my motto with men is touch-me-not, and it is your own fault if I'm fierce.
      My Brilliant Career
      4
      He does have rather a touch-me-not, speak-to-me-never manner.
      Mary Rose of Mifflin
      5
      The mast of the weather-vane boat reminds him of a specific plant, the touch-me-not, or impatiens noli-tangere.
      The Guardian
      1
      Even that humble plant, the cabbage, has been invested with some mystery.
      Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
      2
      But this may be only a poetical device to cast a mystic glamour over the humble plant.
      The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion
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      By a humble plant or two.
      Among the Forces
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      Compared with the long past of this humble plant, all the history of civilized men is but an episode.
      Evolution and Ethics, and Other Essays
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      The foliage of this humble plant is simply green but most have the spots and some have spectacular silver marbling.
      The Guardian
      1
      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.
      Mystic Christianity; Or, The Inner Teachings of the Master
      1
      A somewhat analogous structure occurs in Mimosa pudica and some other plants.
      The Power of Movement in Plants
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      This was observed with Desmodium gyrans and Mimosa pudica.
      The Power of Movement in Plants
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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.
      The Power of Movement in Plants
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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.
      The Power of Movement in Plants
      Translations for shame plant
      portugués
      dormideira