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Significados de sensitive plant em inglês

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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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Semi-climbing prickly evergreen shrub of tropical America having compound leaves sensitive to light and touch.

Uso de sensitive plant em inglês
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Our temperament is nervous we are a sensitive plant, and want care.
Charlotte's Inheritance
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Genius is like the sensitive plant; it shrinks from the touch.
The History of Emily Montague
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The sensitive plant has indigestible seeds-sothey say-andit will flourish for ever.
Vailima Letters / Being Correspondence Addressed by Robert Louis...
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He shrank back at the slightest touch like a sensitive plant.
Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 1
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Josephine drew back at this brusque reply like a sensitive plant.
White Lies
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Ursus had the intrepidity of a fly and the impassibility of a sensitive plant.
The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
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Adelheid folded the stricken and sensitive plant to her bosom.
The Headsman; Or, The Abbaye des Vignerons
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Joseph's feelings were like the leaves of a sensitive plant.
Married Life; Its Shadows and Sunshine
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That quiver of the sensitive plant softened the General.
A Woman of Thirty
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The sensitive plant obeys no regular rules of this kind, but acts according to circumstances.
Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy
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The mere act of his passing had set some sensitive plant to register his presence.
Plague Ship
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The Anemones are very sensitive to touch, and will shrink up like a sensitive plant.
How Sammy Went to Coral-Land
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And she, noting his impatient frown, was thinking: He's like a sensitive plant charged with gunpowder.
Far to Seek / A Romance of England and India
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I must have been the sensitive plant if any thing in that character had hurt me!
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
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What then remains for thee, poor sensitive plant, as thy tender mother used to call thee?
The Wandering Jew — Volume 08
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Of the collapse of the sensitive plant
The Botanic Garden. Part II. / Containing the Loves of the Plant...
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