sensitive plant   (TTS Sound)

The noun sensitive plant has 2 senses

• sensitive plant, touch-me-not, shame plant, live-and-die, humble plant, action plant, Mimosa pudica -- (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)


• sensitive plant, Mimosa sensitiva -- (semi-climbing prickly evergreen shrub of tropical America having compound leaves sensitive to light and touch)