touch-me-not /ˈtʌʧmiˌnɑt/
水金鳳,鳳仙花,高傲的人
Touch-me-not n. Bot. (a) See Impatiens. (b) Squirting cucumber. See under Cucumber.
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touch-me-not
n 1: North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange
flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil [syn: jewelweed,
lady's earrings, orange balsam, celandine, Impatiens
capensis]
2: Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels
its seeds and juice violently when touched [syn: squirting
cucumber, exploding cucumber, Ecballium elaterium]
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 [syn: sensitive plant, shame
plant, live-and-die, humble plant, action plant, Mimosa
pudica]