| 单词 | touch-me-not |
| 释义 | touch-me-not (once / 95318 pages) n WORD FAMILY touch-me-not USAGE EXAMPLESIn Treegap, the same moonlight silvered the roof of the touch-me-not cottage, but inside, the lamps were burning. Natalie Babbit, Tuck Everlasting(1975) These plants present the most remarkable blending of the rigid, uncompromising, touch-me-not aspect and the ethereal and fragile. Parsons, Mary Elizabeth, The Wild Flowers of California: The...(2012) “Touch-me-not” was a nick-name given her long ago by her friends. Stokes, Katherine, The Motor Maids Across the Continen...(2011) 1n 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 Syn|Hyper Mimosa pudica, action plant, humble plant, live-and-die, sensitive plant, shame plant mimosa any of various tropical shrubs or trees of the genus Mimosa having usually yellow flowers and compound leaves 2n North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil Syn|Hyper Impatiens capensis, celandine, jewelweed, lady's earrings, orange balsam herb, herbaceous plant a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests 3n Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched Syn|Hyper Ecballium elaterium, exploding cucumber, squirting cucumber gourd, gourd vine any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds |
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