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- 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
- Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched
- 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
