sensitive plant
sensitive plant noun: an organism thought to be intermediate between plants and animals; a zoophyte.
Noun
sensitive plant (plural sensitive plants)
- An organism thought to be intermediate between plants and animals; a zoophyte.
- A plant that moves in response to touch and other physical stimuli; especially Mimosa pudica, an annual plant native to Central and South America.
- 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.1788, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary: A Fiction
- 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.1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Sensitive Plant”, in Prometheus Unbound […], London: C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier […], →OCLC, part first, stanza 1, page 157
- Synonyms:
- noli me tangere, sensitive weed, shame plant, shy plant, sleepy plant, touch-me-not
sensitive plant meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Sanskrit and Assamese
sensitive plant in Tamil
- Mimosa pudica
- தொட்டாற்சிணுங்கி toṭṭāṟciṇuṅki, தொட்டாற்சுருங்கி toṭṭāṟcuruṅki, தொட்டால்வாடி toṭṭālvāṭi
sensitive plant in Malayalam
- Mimosa pudica
- തൊട്ടാവാടി toṭṭāvāṭi
sensitive plant in Sanskrit
- the sensitive plant
- लज्जा lajjā
sensitive plant in Assamese
- Mimosa pudica
- লাজুকী বন lazuki bon, লাজুকী লতা lazuki lota
More languagesFewer languages
- sensitive plant in Tagalog
- makahiya
- sensitive plant in Malay
- semalu, puteri malu, si malu
- sensitive plant in Indonesian
- putri malu
- sensitive plant in Thai
- ไมยราบ mai-yá-râap
- sensitive plant in Vietnamese
- xấu hổ, mắc cỡ, trinh nữ
Synonyms of sensitive plant
- noli me tangere
- sensitive weed
- shame plant
- shy plant
- sleepy plant
- touch-me-not
Forms of sensitive plant
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Questions about sensitive plant
- What does sensitive plant mean?
- Sensitive plant means an organism thought to be intermediate between plants and animals; a zoophyte.
- What is sensitive plant in Tamil?
- Sensitive plant in Tamil is தொட்டாற்சிணுங்கி (toṭṭāṟciṇuṅki), தொட்டாற்சுருங்கி (toṭṭāṟcuruṅki), தொட்டால்வாடி (toṭṭālvāṭi). See Sensitive plant meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is sensitive plant?
- Sensitive plant is a noun.
- What is the plural of sensitive plant?
- The plural of sensitive plant is sensitive plants.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: sensitive plant (page history and authors); लज्जा (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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