noun
- 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.
- synonyms: touch-me-not, shame plant, live-and-die, humble plant, action plant, Mimosa pudica
- Semi-climbing prickly evergreen shrub of tropical America having compound leaves sensitive to light and touch.
- synonyms: Mimosa sensitiva
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