Meaning of sensitive plant | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An organism thought to be intermediate between plants and animals; a zoophyte.
   obsolete
2. A plant that moves in response to touch and other physical stimuli; especially Mimosa pudica, an annual plant native to Central and South America.

Equivalents

Examples

“The picture that was found on a bramble-bush, the new sensitive-plant, or tree, which caught the swain by the upper-garment, and presented to his ravished eyes a portrait.”

“A Sensitive 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.”

“The heart is the true sensitive plant—revolting at a touch.”

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