Noun: touch-me-not 'túch-mee,nót- North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil
- jewelweed, lady's earrings, orange balsam, celandine, Impatiens capensis - Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched
- squirting cucumber, exploding cucumber, Ecballium elaterium - 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
- sensitive plant, shame plant, live-and-die, humble plant, action plant, Mimosa pudica
Type of: gourd, gourd vine, herb, herbaceous plant, mimosa Part of: Ecballium, genus Ecballium, genus Impatiens, genus Mimosa Encyclopedia: Touch-me-not |