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sen·si·tive plant
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Princeton's WordNet
sensitive plant, touch-me-not, shame plant, live-and-die, humble plant, action plant, Mimosa pudicanoun
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
sensitive plant, Mimosa sensitivanoun
semi-climbing prickly evergreen shrub of tropical America having compound leaves sensitive to light and touch
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Sensitive Plantnoun
mimosa, Latin. A plant.
The flower consists of one leaf, which is shaped like a funnel, having many stamina in the centre: these flowers are collected into a round head: from the bottom of the flower rises the pistillum, which afterwards becomes an oblong flat-jointed pod, which opens both ways, and contains in each partition one roundish seed. Of this plant the humble plants are a species, which are so called, because, upon being touched, the pedicle of their leaves falls downward; but the leaves of the sensitive plant are only contracted. Philip Miller.
Vegetables have many of them some degrees of motion, and, upon the different application of other bodies to them, do very briskly alter their figure and motion, and so have obtained the name of sensitive plants, from a motion which has some resemblance to that which in animals follows upon sensation. John Locke.
Whence does it happen, that the plant which well
We name the sensitive, should move and feel?
Whence know her leaves to answer her command,
And with quick horrour fly the neighb’ring hand? Matthew Prior.The sensitive plant is so call’d, because, as soon as you touch it, the leaf shrinks. John Mortimer.
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sensitive plant
A sensitive plant, scientifically known as Mimosa pudica, is a type of shrub native to South and Central America. The term "sensitive plant" comes from its unique reaction to touch or movement. Upon contact, the small, fern-like leaves fold inward and droop, which appear as though the plant is shrinking or 'sensitive'. This noteworthy behavior is a defense mechanism against predators or environmental conditions. This plant also has small, globe-shaped pink flowers and has been widely used for medicinal purposes in various cultures.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of sensitive plant in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of sensitive plant in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
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