Sensitive Plant

Definitions: Sensitive Plant

Sensitive Plant

Noun

1. Prostrate or semi-erect subshrub of tropical America, and Australia; heavily armed with recurved thorns and having sensitive soft gray-green leaflets that fold and droop at night or when touched or cooled.

2. Semi-climbing prickly evergreen shrub of tropical America having compound leaves sensitive to light and touch.

Synonyms: Sensitive Plant

Synonyms: action plant (n), humble plant (n), live-and-die (n), shame plant (n), touch-me-not (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Sensitive Plant

English words defined with "sensitive plant": Cassia fasciculata, Chamaecrista fasciculata ♦ Dionaea muscipula ♦ humble plant ♦ partridge pea ♦ sensitive pea ♦ Venus's flytrap, Venus's flytraps ♦ Wild sensitive plant. (references)

Specialty definitions using "sensitive plant": atomic moisture meter. (references)

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Photo Album: Sensitive Plant

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	A sensitive plant.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expression: Sensitive Plant

Expression using "sensitive plant": wild sensitive plant. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sensitive Plant

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
sensitive plant	43
mimosa the sensitive plant	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Sensitive Plant

Language		Translations for "sensitive plant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏نبات حساس. (various references)

Bulgarian		срамежлива мимоза (noli me tangere). (various references)

French		plante sensibilisé. (various references)

Hungarian		nebáncsvirág (balsam, garden balsam, impatiens, touch me not, touch-me-not), mimóza (mimosa, wattle). (various references)

Pig Latin		ensitivesay antplay

Russian		мимоза стыдливая. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		mimoza (mimosa pudica). (various references)

Spanish		sensitiva. (various references)

Turkish		mimoza (Mimosa), küstümotu (humble plant, Mimosa). (various references)

Vietnamese		cây trinh nữ (humble plant). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Sensitive Plant

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Mimosa. (various references)
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Anagrams: Sensitive Plant

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-i-l-n-n-p-s-s-t-t-v"
	-1 letter: plaintiveness.
	-3 letters: inessential, penitential.
	-4 letters: antielites, epinasties, inpatients, intensives, intestinal, intestines, nativeness, penalities, pliantness, saintliest, sentential, septennial, tenantless, valentines, venalities, venialness, ventilates.
	-5 letters: alienists, alienness, aliveness, alpinists, anisettes, antielite, antisense, antisleep, einsteins, essential, estivates, inaptness, ineptness, inpatient, insensate, insistent, intensest, intensive, intestine, lenitives, levitates, naiveness, naiveties, nativists, nattiness, paintiest, panelists, pastelist, penalises, penalties, penitents.
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