Sensitive plant

"Sensitive plant" in a Sentence (3 examples)

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.

A Sensitive Plant in a garden grew, / And the young winds fed it with silver dew, / And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light, / And closed them beneath the kisses of the night.

The heart is the true sensitive plant—revolting at a touch.

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