Noun: action plant
- 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
"Children were fascinated by the action plant's leaves folding at their touch";
- sensitive plant, touch-me-not, shame plant, live-and-die, humble plant, Mimosa pudica
Derived forms: action plants
Type of: mimosa
Part of: genus Mimosa
Encyclopedia: Action plant