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Meanings of touch-me-not in inglês

português
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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      ecballium

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

            ecballium

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

                  Usage of touch-me-not in inglês
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                  I've often been amused at and have admired your touch-me-not style.
                  My Brilliant Career
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                  The children had a subdued and touch-me-not air that reminded Honora of her own youth.
                  A Modern Chronicle — Volume 02
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                  Yes; my motto with men is touch-me-not, and it is your own fault if I'm fierce.
                  My Brilliant Career
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                  He does have rather a touch-me-not, speak-to-me-never manner.
                  Mary Rose of Mifflin
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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.
                  The Guardian
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                  I didn't know you were a touch-me-not.
                  The Rise of David Levinsky
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                  You fierce, wild, touch-me-not thing, he roared.
                  My Brilliant Career
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                  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
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                  You know, old man, you have a sort of horribly lordly, touch-me-not air about you when you choose.
                  The Splendid Folly
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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.
                  The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life
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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.
                  Memories of Hawthorne
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                  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