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Princeton's WordNet

  1. jewelweed, lady's earrings, orange balsam, celandine, touch-me-not, Impatiens capensisnoun

    North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil

  2. squirting cucumber, exploding cucumber, touch-me-not, Ecballium elateriumnoun

    Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched

  3. 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

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  1. touch-me-notnoun

    Any of several unrelated plants which react when touched.

Wikipedia

  1. Touch-Me-Not

    Touch-Me-Not (봉선화 - Bongseonhwa) is a 1956 South Korean film directed by Kim Ki-young.

ChatGPT

  1. touch-me-not

    Touch-me-not is a common name for certain species of plants, particularly in the genus Impatiens, that respond dramatically to physical touch. This response can be a sudden release of seeds or a folding in of leaves. The name is derived from the plant's sensitivity to touch. The most well-known example of a touch-me-not plant is "Impatiens capensis", also known as the orange jewelweed or common jewelweed.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Touch-me-notnoun

    see Impatiens

  2. Touch-me-notnoun

    squirting cucumber. See under Cucumber

Wikidata

  1. Touch-Me-Not

    Touch-Me-Not is a 1956 South Korean film directed by Kim Ki-young.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of touch-me-not in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of touch-me-not in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8


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