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Meanings of touch-me-not in inglés
portugués
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.
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ecballium Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched.
Synonyms
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.
Usage of touch-me-not in inglés
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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.