touch-me-not

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}, {touch-me-not}, {Impatiens capensis}]
    2: Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels
       its seeds and juice violently when touched [syn: {squirting
       cucumber}, {exploding cucumber}, {touch-me-not}, {Ecballium
       elaterium}]
    3: 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 [syn: {sensitive plant},
       {touch-me-not}, {shame plant}, {live-and-die}, {humble
       plant}, {action plant}, {Mimosa pudica}]
    

Impatiens \Im*pa"ti*ens\ ([i^]m*p[=a]"sh[i^]*[e^]nz), prop. n.
   [L., impatient.] (Bot.)
   A genus of plants, several species of which have very
   beautiful flowers; -- so called because the elastic capsules
   burst when touched, and scatter the seeds with considerable
   force. Called also {touch-me-not}, {jewelweed}, and
   {snapweed}. {Impatiens Balsamina} (sometimes called {lady's
   slipper}) is the common garden balsam.
   [1913 Webster]
    

Touch-me-not \Touch"-me-not`\ (t[u^]ch"m[-e]*n[o^]t`), n. (Bot.)
   (a) See {Impatiens}.
   (b) Squirting cucumber. See under {Cucumber}.
       [1913 Webster]