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sensitive plant

a tropical American plant (Mimosa pudica) of the mimosa family, with a spiny stem, minute, purplish flowers in spherical clusters, and leaflets that fold and leafstalks that droop at the slightest touch

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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It is also known as the TickleMe Plant because it closes its leaves and lowers its branches when Tickled.

Posted by Karen Jacobs 40 days ago.

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