Noun: live-and-die
- 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 live-and-die's leaves folding at their touch";
- sensitive plant, touch-me-not, shame plant, humble plant, action plant, Mimosa pudica
Type of: mimosa
Part of: genus Mimosa