touch-me-not : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: touch-me-not	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for touch-me-not
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
touch-me-not n North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil Synonym(s): jewelweed, lady's earrings, orange balsam, celandine, touch-me-not, Impatiens capensis Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched Synonym(s): squirting cucumber, exploding cucumber, touch-me-not, Ecballium elaterium 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 Synonym(s): sensitive plant, touch-me-not, shame plant, live-and-die, humble plant, action plant, Mimosa pudica
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Touch-me-not \Touch"-me-not`\, n. (Bot.) (a) See {Impatiens}. (b) Squirting cucumber. See under {Cucumber}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Impatiens \[d8]Impa"tiens\, n. [L., impatient.] (Bot.) A genus of plants, several species of which have very beautiful flowers; -- so called because the elastic capsules burst when touched, and scatter the seeds with considerable force. Called also {touch-me-not}, {jewelweed}, and {snapweed}. {I. Balsamina} (sometimes called {lady's slipper}) is the common garden balsam.