humble plant

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Mimosa pudica

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Noun

humble plant (plural humble plants)

1. sensitive plant (Mimosa pudica).

Synonyms

• touch-me-not

Further reading

• “humble”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “humble plant”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.