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SHAME PLANT

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• SHAME PLANT (noun)
The noun SHAME PLANT has 1 sense:

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

Familiarity information: SHAME PLANT used as a noun is very rare.

• SHAME PLANT (noun)

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

action plant; humble plant; live-and-die; Mimosa pudica; sensitive plant; shame plant; touch-me-not

Hypernyms ("shame plant" is a kind of...):

mimosa (any of various tropical shrubs or trees of the genus Mimosa having usually yellow flowers and compound leaves)

Holonyms ("shame plant" is a member of...):

genus Mimosa (genus of spiny woody shrubs or trees; named for their apparent imitation of animal sensitivity to light and heat and movement)

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