| NOUN | plant | touch-me-not, jewelweed, lady's earrings, orange balsam, celandine, Impatiens capensis | North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers |
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| plant | touch-me-not, squirting cucumber, exploding cucumber, Ecballium elaterium | Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched | |
| plant | touch-me-not, sensitive plant, shame plant, live-and-die, humble plant, action plant, Mimosa pudica | prostrate or semi-erect subshrub of tropical America, and Australia |
| Meaning | North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil. | |
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| Synonyms | jewelweed, lady's earrings, orange balsam, celandine, Impatiens capensis | |
| Member of | genus Impatiens | annual or perennial herbs with stems more or less succulent |
| Broader | herb, herbaceous plant | A plant lacking a permanent woody stem |
| Spanish | celidonia, impatiens capensis | |
| Catalan | impatiens capensis | |
| Meaning | Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched. | |
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| Synonyms | squirting cucumber, exploding cucumber, Ecballium elaterium | |
| Member of | Ecballium, genus Ecballium | exploding cucumber |
| Broader | gourd, gourd vine | Any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds |
| Spanish | cohombrillo amargo | |
| Catalan | cogombre amarg, cogombret | |
| Meaning | 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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| Synonyms | sensitive plant, shame plant, live-and-die, humble plant, action plant, Mimosa pudica | |
| Member of | genus Mimosa | genus of spiny woody shrubs or trees |
| Broader | mimosa | Any of various tropical shrubs or trees of the genus Mimosa having usually yellow flowers and compound leaves |
| Catalan | Mimosa pudica, sensitiva | |
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