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touch-me-not

NOUN
  1. 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
  2. Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched
  3. North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil

How To Use touch-me-not In A Sentence

  • My daughter runs by the brief flowers: touch-me-nots among the stones, bluebells and sorrels, solomon's seal.
  • Yellow lady's slipper, ram's head lady's slipper, asters, sedges, white and red baneberries, wild sarsaparilla, spotted touch-me-not, goldenrods and a variety of fern species are common species of the herb layer.
  • And all that juicy red lip gloss our boy was laying on your touch-me-not zones. Silver Zombie
  • In the damp and shady places of the woods there exists a plant of the same family which, for similar reasons, bears the even more expressive name of _Impatiens noli-me-tangere_, or touch-me-not. The Life of the Spider
  • And I was, all stiff and touch-me-not and very pointedly avoiding the question of whether she was going to hitch a ride from me and Dodie in our little Eclipse. Archive 2008-10-01
  • He dropped his tight-lipped, touch-me-not manner, and became the merchant ready for a deal. IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE
  • The ceremony was held in blazing heat in a garden dotted with pink and purple touch-me-nots, orange chrysanthemums and miniature palm trees.
  • My daughter runs by the brief flowers: touch-me-nots among the stones, bluebells and sorrels, solomon's seal.
  • A stroll through older neighborhoods during summer will provide you with glimpses of fragrant four clocks and touch-me-nots.
  • He smells every starling and chipmunk and fox, every lichen and fern and touch-me-not bursting up through dead leaves on his trail. Moving Among Them
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