Usage of "touch-me-not"

portugués

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.

Mimosa pudica

dormideira

portugués

ecballium

Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched.

ecballium

Sinónimos

Examples for "squirting cucumber"

Of course, you know my friend the squirting cucumber. 
 Science in Arcady 

This timelapse footage from the Smithsonian Channel's Amazing Plants documentary shows violets, touch me nots, and squirting cucumbers erupting. 
 Wired 

The patient's medical history revealed the use of Ecballium elaterium extract. 
 Pubmed 

Conclusions: The use of Ecballium elaterium extract as a remedy can cause severe adverse effects that should not be ignored. 
 Pubmed 

North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil.

Uso de touch-me-not en inglés

I've often been amused at and have admired your touch-me-not style. 
 My Brilliant Career 

The children had a subdued and touch-me-not air that reminded Honora of her own youth. 
 A Modern Chronicle — Volume 02 

Yes; my motto with men is touch-me-not, and it is your own fault if I'm fierce. 
 My Brilliant Career 

He does have rather a touch-me-not, speak-to-me-never manner. 
 Mary Rose of Mifflin 

The mast of the weather-vane boat reminds him of a specific plant, the touch-me-not, or impatiens noli-tangere. 
 The Guardian 

I didn't know you were a touch-me-not. 
 The Rise of David Levinsky 

You fierce, wild, touch-me-not thing, he roared. 
 My Brilliant Career 

I went into the garden and gathered every ripe touch-me-not pod I could find, and all the portulaca. 
 Laddie: A True Blue Story 

You know, old man, you have a sort of horribly lordly, touch-me-not air about you when you choose. 
 The Splendid Folly 

In the twilight, we now and then, to support ourselves, snatched at the touch-me-not stem of some ancient sweet-brier. 
 The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life 

Over his tender-heartedness, as I saw him in the old days, played delicious eccentricities, phosphorescent, fitful, touch-me-not antics of feeling. 
 Memories of Hawthorne 

Some call it Speckled Jewels, for the bright blossoms are spotted with dark purple; and some, Touch-me-not. 
 In the Forest; Or, Pictures of Life and Scenery in the Woods of ... 

Translations for touch-me-not

portugués

dormideira ecballium

Lengua de interfaz

Significados de touch-me-not en inglés