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Noun touch-me-not has 3 senses
- jewelweed, lady's earrings, orange balsam, celandine, touch-me-not, Impatiens capensis - North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil
--1 is a kind of herb, herbaceous plant
--1 is a member of genus Impatiens
- squirting cucumber, exploding cucumber, touch-me-not, Ecballium elaterium - Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched
--2 is a kind of gourd, gourd vine
--2 is a member of Ecballium, genus Ecballium
- 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 gray-green leaflets that fold and droop at night or when touched or cooled
--3 is a kind of mimosa
--3 is a member of genus Mimosa
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