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Meanings of sensitive plant in inglês
português
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.
See moreSemi-climbing prickly evergreen shrub of tropical America having compound leaves sensitive to light and touch.
Synonyms
Examples for "touch-me-not"
Examples for "touch-me-not"
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I've often been amused at and have admired your touch-me-not style.
2
The children had a subdued and touch-me-not air that reminded Honora of her own youth.
3
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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Even that humble plant, the cabbage, has been invested with some mystery.
2
But this may be only a poetical device to cast a mystic glamour over the humble plant.
3
By a humble plant or two.
4
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.
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.
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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.
Usage of sensitive plant in inglês
1
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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Ursus had the intrepidity of a fly and the impassibility of a sensitive plant.
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Adelheid folded the stricken and sensitive plant to her bosom.
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Joseph's feelings were like the leaves of a sensitive plant.
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That quiver of the sensitive plant softened the General.
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The sensitive plant obeys no regular rules of this kind, but acts according to circumstances.
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The mere act of his passing had set some sensitive plant to register his presence.
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The Anemones are very sensitive to touch, and will shrink up like a sensitive plant.
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And she, noting his impatient frown, was thinking: He's like a sensitive plant charged with gunpowder.
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I must have been the sensitive plant if any thing in that character had hurt me!
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What then remains for thee, poor sensitive plant, as thy tender mother used to call thee?
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Of the collapse of the sensitive plant
This collocation consists of:
Sensitive plant through the time
Sensitive plant across language varieties
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