Usually means: Reacts to touch by closing.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. sensitive plant: Merriam-Webster
  2. sensitive plant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sensitive plant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sensitive plant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sensitive plant: Vocabulary.com
  6. sensitive plant: Wordnik
  7. sensitive plant: Wiktionary
  8. sensitive plant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. sensitive plant: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. sensitive plant: Dictionary.com
  11. Sensitive Plant, Sensitive plant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. sensitive plant: Rhymezone
  13. sensitive-plant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. sensitive plant: FreeDictionary.org
  15. sensitive plant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. sensitive plant: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. sensitive plant: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sensitive plant: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sensitive plant: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sensitive plant)

noun:  (obsolete) An organism thought to be intermediate between plants and animals; a zoophyte.
noun:  A plant that moves in response to touch and other physical stimuli; especially Mimosa pudica, an annual plant native to Central and South America.

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