sensitive plant

Questions about sensitive plant

What does sensitive plant mean?

sensitive plant means "prostrate or semi-erect subshrub of tropical America, and Australia; heavily armed with recurved thorns and having sensitive soft grey-green leaflets that fold and droop at night or when touched or cooled". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for sensitive plant?

Close synonyms include touch-me-not, shame plant, live-and-die, humble plant, action 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 sensitive plant a common word?

sensitive plant 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.