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sensitive plant (pluralsensitive plants)

(obsolete) Anorganism thought to be intermediate betweenplants andanimals; azoophyte.[17th c.]
A plant that moves in response to touch and other physical stimuli; especiallyMimosa pudica, an annual plant native to Central and South America.[from 17th c.]
Synonyms:noli me tangere,sensitive weed,shame plant,shy plant,sleepy plant,touch-me-not
- 1788,Mary Wollstonecraft,Mary: A Fiction‎^[1]:
  The picture that was found on a bramble-bush, the newsensitive-plant, or tree, which caught the swain by the upper-garment, and presented to his ravished eyes a portrait.
- 1820,Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Sensitive Plant”, inPrometheus Unbound […], London:C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier […],→OCLC, part first, stanza 1,page157:
  ASensitive Plant in a garden grew, / And the young winds fed it with silver dew, / And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light, / And closed them beneath the kisses of the night.
- 1834,L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXIII, inFrancesca Carrara. […], volume I, London:Richard Bentley, […], (successor toHenry Colburn),→OCLC,page284:
  The heart is the truesensitive plant—revolting at a touch.

Mimosa pudica

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