[W/K] :: touch-me-not

  Impatiens \Im*pa"ti*ens\ ([i^]m*p[=a]"sh[i^]*[e^]nz), prop. 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. Impatiens Balsamina (sometimes called lady's
     slipper) is the common garden balsam.
     [1913 Webster]

  Touch-me-not \Touch"-me-not`\ (t[u^]ch"m[-e]*n[o^]t`), n. (Bot.)
     (a) See Impatiens.
     (b) Squirting cucumber. See under Cucumber.
         [1913 Webster]

  touch-me-not
       n 1: North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange
            flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil [syn: jewelweed,
             lady's earrings, orange balsam, celandine, Impatiens
            capensis]
       2: Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels
          its seeds and juice violently when touched [syn: squirting
          cucumber, exploding cucumber, Ecballium elaterium]
       3: prostrate or semi-erect subshrub of tropical America, and
          Australia; heavily armed with recurved thorns and having
          sensitive soft gray-green leaflets that fold and droop at
          night or when touched or cooled [syn: sensitive plant, shame
          plant, live-and-die, humble plant, action plant, Mimosa
          pudica]