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Sensitive plant

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Noun
  1. 1
    An organism thought to be intermediate between plants and animals; a zoophyte. obsolete
  2. 2
    semi-climbing prickly evergreen shrub of tropical America having compound leaves sensitive to light and touch wordnet
  3. 3
    A plant that moves in response to touch and other physical stimuli; especially Mimosa pudica, an annual plant native to Central and South America.

    "The picture that was found on a bramble-bush, the new sensitive-plant, or tree, which caught the swain by the upper-garment, and presented to his ravished eyes a portrait."

  4. 4
    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 wordnet

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