mimosa sensitiva

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   semi-climbing prickly evergreen shrub of tropical America having compound leaves sensitive to light and touch

   Synonymssensitive plant

   Broadermimosa

   Part ofgenus Mimosa

Questions about mimosa sensitiva

What does mimosa sensitiva mean?

mimosa sensitiva means "semi-climbing prickly evergreen shrub of tropical America having compound leaves sensitive to light and touch".

What is another word for mimosa sensitiva?

Close synonyms include sensitive plant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mimosa sensitiva a common word?

mimosa sensitiva is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.