touch-me-not

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美[\'tʌtʃmɪˌnɒt]

基本释义

含羞草

Noun

1. North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil
2. Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched
3. prostrate or semi-erect subshrub of tropical America, and Australia; heavily armed with recurved thorns and having sensitive soft gray-green leaflets that fold and droop at night or when touched or cooled