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 1. 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
 • Syn:
 sensitive plant, shame plant, live-and-die, humble plant, action plant, Mimosa pudica
 • Hypernyms:
 mimosa
 • Member Holonyms:
 genus Mimosa
 2. North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers;
 grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil
 • Syn:
 jewelweed, lady's earrings, orange balsam, celandine, Impatiens capensis
 • Hypernyms:
 herb, herbaceous plant
 • Member Holonyms:
 genus Impatiens
 3. Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched
 • Syn:
 squirting cucumber, exploding cucumber, Ecballium elaterium
 • Hypernyms:
 gourd, gourd vine
 • Member Holonyms:
 Ecballium, genus Ecballium
 
 
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