noun
- North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil.
- synonyms: 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.
- synonyms: 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.
- synonyms: sensitive plant, shame plant, live-and-die, humble plant, action plant, Mimosa pudica
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