| jewelweed | (n) North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil, Syn. Impatiens capensis, celandine, orange balsam, touch-me-not, lady's earrings |
| sensitive plant | (n) 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. action plant, live-and-die, Mimosa pudica, touch-me-not, humble plant, shame plant |
| squirting cucumber | (n) Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched, Syn. exploding cucumber, touch-me-not, Ecballium elaterium |
