Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plant of the genus Impatiens, especially I. Nolitangere, so called because the ripe seed-vessel explodes at the touch.
- noun In medicine, a tubercular affection, occurring especially about the face; noli-me-tangere; lupus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
impatiens . - noun Squirting cucumber. See under
cucumber .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several unrelated
plants which react when touched.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun 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
- noun North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil
- noun Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched
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Examples
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There were lots of different species, as I recall, pretty typical of seepage swamp: black ash and cottonwood, buckthorn, marsh marigold, Virginia creeper, touch-me-not, wood nettle.
FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010
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And all that juicy red lip gloss our boy was laying on your touch-me-not zones.
Silver Zombie Carole Nelson Douglas 2010
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She plucked a wildflower, a touch-me-not, and dropped it in a basket woven of reeds.
Vermilion Drift William Kent Krueger 2010
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There were lots of different species, as I recall, pretty typical of seepage swamp: black ash and cottonwood, buckthorn, marsh marigold, Virginia creeper, touch-me-not, wood nettle.
FALSE MERMAID ERIN HART 2010
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He smells every starling and chipmunk and fox, every lichen and fern and touch-me-not bursting up through dead leaves on his trail.
Moving Among Them 2009
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And I was, all stiff and touch-me-not and very pointedly avoiding the question of whether she was going to hitch a ride from me and Dodie in our little Eclipse.
Archive 2008-10-01 Dodie Bellamy 2008
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And I was, all stiff and touch-me-not and very pointedly avoiding the question of whether she was going to hitch a ride from me and Dodie in our little Eclipse.
Kevin Killian: What I Saw at the Orono Conference 2008, part 9 Dodie Bellamy 2008
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So thick are the palisades of thorny mimosa -- an aggressive weed akin to the touch-me-not -- that India's endangered one-horned rhino can no longer move about freely in Kaziranga National Park.
Attack Of the Aliens 2007
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But, above all, they had the modesty of pride, a chaste reserve, a/touch-me-not/which at a maturer age might have seemed intentional coyness, so much did their demeanor inspire a wish to know them.
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But, above all, they had the modesty of pride, a chaste reserve, a/touch-me-not/which at a maturer age might have seemed intentional coyness, so much did their demeanor inspire a wish to know them.
bilby commented on the word touch-me-not
An earlier stage in the courtship of Miss Forget-Me-Not.
July 18, 2008
PrincessStar commented on the word touch-me-not
common name of the plant Mimosa pudica.
June 28, 2010