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sensitive plants

sensitive plants is the plural of sensitive plant.

Meaning of sensitive plant

Noun

sensitive plant (plural sensitive plants)

  1. (obsolete) An organism thought to be intermediate between plants and animals; a zoophyte.
  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.
    • 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
    Synonyms:
    noli me tangere, sensitive weed, shame plant, shy plant, sleepy plant, touch-me-not

Questions about sensitive plants

What is sensitive plants the plural of?
Sensitive plants is the plural of sensitive plant.

Words near sensitive plants in the dictionary

  1. sensitive fern
  2. sensitive ferns
  3. sensitive pea
  4. sensitive peas
  5. sensitive plant
  6. sensitive plants
  7. sensitive style
  8. sensitively
  9. sensitiveness
  10. sensitivenesses
  11. sensitives

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