mimosa

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M0307400 (mĭ-mō′sə, -zə)n.1. Any of various mostly tropical plants of the genus Mimosa in the pea family, having globular heads of small flowers with protruding stamens and usually bipinnate, compound leaves often sensitive to touch or light.2. Any of various similar plants of the genus Acacia in the pea family, especially silver wattle.3. See silk tree.4. A drink consisting of champagne and orange juice.

[New Latin Mīmōsa, genus name, from Latin mīmus, mime (from the plant's apparent mimicry of animal reactions), from Greek mīmos.]

mimosa

(mɪˈməʊsə; -zə) n1. (Plants) any tropical shrub or tree of the leguminous genus Mimosa, having ball-like clusters of yellow or pink flowers and compound leaves that are often sensitive to touch or light. See also sensitive plant2. (Plants) any similar or related tree[C18: from New Latin, probably from Latin mīmus mime, because the plant's sensitivity to touch imitates the similar reaction of animals]

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(mɪˈmoʊ sə, -zə)

n., pl. -sas. 1. any of numerous plants, shrubs, or trees belonging to the genus Mimosa, of the legume family, native to tropical or warm regions, having small flowers in globular heads or cylindrical spikes. 2. any of various similar or related plants, as the silk tree. 3. a cocktail of orange juice and champagne. [1745–55; < New Latin (1619) = Latin mīm(us) mime + -ōsa, feminine of -ōsus -ose¹]

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Noun	1.	mimosa - evergreen Australasian tree having white or silvery bark and young leaves and yellow flowersAcacia dealbata, silver wattlegenus Acacia - large genus of shrubs and trees and some woody vines of Central and South America, Africa, Australia and Polynesia: wattle; mimosawattle - any of various Australasian trees yielding slender poles suitable for wattle
	2.	mimosa - any of various tropical shrubs or trees of the genus Mimosa having usually yellow flowers and compound leavesgenus Mimosa - genus of spiny woody shrubs or trees; named for their apparent imitation of animal sensitivity to light and heat and movementMimosa sensitiva, sensitive plant - semi-climbing prickly evergreen shrub of tropical America having compound leaves sensitive to light and touchaction plant, humble plant, live-and-die, Mimosa pudica, sensitive plant, shame plant, touch-me-not - 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 cooledbush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
	3.	mimosa - a mixed drink containing champagne and orange juicebuck's fizzmixed drink - made of two or more ingredients

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mimosa

(miˈməuzə) noun a plant with small flowers and fern-like leaves which close when touched (also called sensitive plant). 含羞草

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Beta Crucis

(bā`tə kro͞o`sĭs), bright star in the constellation CruxCrux
[Lat.,=cross], small but brilliant southern constellation whose four most prominent members form a Latin cross, the famous Southern Cross. The long arm of the cross, terminating in the brightest member, Acrux (Alpha Crucis), points almost directly at the south celestial
..... Click the link for more information. (Southern Cross); 1992 position R.A. 12^h47.3^m, Dec. −59°39'. It is sometimes called Becrux, from its Bayer name, analogous to Acrux (Alpha Crucis) and Gacrux (Gamma Crucis). A bluish-white giant of spectral classspectral class,
in astronomy, a classification of the stars by their spectrum and luminosity. In 1885, E. C. Pickering began the first extensive attempt to classify the stars spectroscopically.
..... Click the link for more information. B0 III, its apparent magnitudemagnitude,
in astronomy, measure of the brightness of a star or other celestial object. The stars cataloged by Ptolemy (2d cent. A.D.), all visible with the unaided eye, were ranked on a brightness scale such that the brightest stars were of 1st magnitude and the dimmest stars
..... Click the link for more information. of 1.28 makes it one of the 20 brightest stars in the sky. Mimosa's distance is c.500 light-years.

mimosa

(mĭmō`sə), any tree, shrub, or herb of the genus Mimosa of the family Leguminosae (pulsepulse,
in botany, common name for members of the Fabaceae (Leguminosae), a large plant family, called also the pea, or legume, family. Numbering about 650 genera and 17,000 species, the family is third largest, after the asters and the orchids.
..... Click the link for more information. family), chiefly tropical plants. They usually have feathery foliage and rounded clusters of fragrant pinkish flowers atop the branches. Mimosas are used for ornamental purposes in warm regions. The yellow-flowered plants sold as mimosa by florists are usually of the related genus Acacia (see acaciaacacia
, any plant of the large leguminous genus Acacia, often thorny shrubs and trees of the family Leguminosae (pulse family). Chiefly of the tropics and subtropics, they are cultivated for decorative and economic purposes.
..... Click the link for more information. ). Most widely known of the mimosas is the sensitive plant (M. pudica), considered a weed in the American tropics but cultivated as a greenhouse annual elsewhere because its leaves fold up and collapse under stimulus (e.g., touch, darkness, or drought) until the whole plant may assume temporarily a thoroughly wilted appearance. It is now naturalized in many warm regions and grows wild in the Gulf states. The name sensitive plant is also applied to other plants of this family that show similar movements. Mimosa is classified in the division MagnoliophytaMagnoliophyta
, division of the plant kingdom consisting of those organisms commonly called the flowering plants, or angiosperms. The angiosperms have leaves, stems, and roots, and vascular, or conducting, tissue (xylem and phloem).
..... Click the link for more information. , class Magnoliopsida, order Rosales, family Leguminosae.

Mimosa

(mi-moh -să, -ză) See Beta Crucis.

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Fern-like leaves fold up at night, sensitive to human touch. Pink and white wispy flowers look like pink hair, flat brown pea-type pods. Flowers and bark used as a sedative for depression, anxiety, insomnia

Mimosa

a genus of plants of the family Mimosaceae. They include perennial grasses, shrubs (at times twining), and trees. The plants often have spines that are modified sepals. The leaves are bipinnate, and the small flowers are in capitate or spicate inflorescences. The fruit is a scarious or leathery pod, which usually separates into segments upon ripening. There are between 450 and 500 species, distributed primarily in tropical and subtropical America; a few species are found in Africa and Asia. The leaves of some species are sensitive. This sensitivity is particularly pronounced in the sensitive mimosa (Mimosa pudicd), a shrub or subshrub widespread in the tropics of both hemispheres. When touched or with the approach of darkness, the leaflets fold together in pairs, and then the entire leaf droops. At times, species of the genus Acacia that grow on the Black Sea shore of the Caucasus are called mimosas (for example, Acacia dealbatd).

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[mə′mō·sə] (astronomy) β Crucis

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1. any tropical shrub or tree of the leguminous genus Mimosa, having ball-like clusters of yellow or pink flowers and compound leaves that are often sensitive to touch or light 2. any similar or related tree

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noun evergreen Australasian tree having white or silvery bark and young leaves and yellow flowers

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noun any of various tropical shrubs or trees of the genus Mimosa having usually yellow flowers and compound leaves

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noun a mixed drink containing champagne and orange juice

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