Usually means: Sensitive plant that recoils quickly.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word touch-me-not:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. touch-me-not: Merriam-Webster
  2. touch-me-not: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. touch-me-not: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. touch-me-not, touch-me-not: Collins English Dictionary
  5. touch-me-not: Vocabulary.com
  6. touch-me-not: Wordnik
  7. touch-me-not: Wiktionary
  8. touch-me-not: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. touch-me-not: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. touch-me-not: Dictionary.com
  11. Touch-Me-Not, Touch-me-not: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Touch-me-not: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. touch-me-not: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. touch-me-not: Rhymezone
  15. Touch-me-not: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. touch-me-not: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. TOUCH-ME-NOT: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  18. touch-me-not: FreeDictionary.org
  19. touch-me-not: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. touch-me-not: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. touch-me-not: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Touch-me-not: Botanical Name listing of Plants

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Definitions from Wiktionary (touch-me-not)

noun:  Any of several (not closely related) plants which react when touched.
noun:  The jewelweed, Impatiens noli-tangere, Impatiens capensis, Impatiens parviflora.
noun:  The sensitive plant (Mimosa pudica).
noun:  The squirting cucumber (Ecballium elaterium).
noun:  (archaic) Lupus.

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