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touch-me-not   (TTS Sound)

The noun touch-me-not has 3 senses

• jewelweed, lady's earrings, orange balsam, celandine, touch-me-not, Impatiens capensis -- (North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil)


• squirting cucumber, exploding cucumber, touch-me-not, Ecballium elaterium -- (Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched)


• sensitive plant, touch-me-not, shame plant, live-and-die, humble plant, action plant, Mimosa pudica -- (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)