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水金凤,凤仙花,高傲的人
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Touch-me-not \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}]