1A tropical American plant of the pea family, whose leaflets fold together and leaves bend down when touched. A common weed of sugar cane, it has become naturalized throughout the tropics.
含羞草
Mimosa pudica, family Leguminosae
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Mimosa, the sensitive plant, folds up its leaves at night and opens them again in the day.
In temperate climates, the sensitive plant is grown mainly as an indoor plant, usually for its fascinating behaviour.
The sensitive plant commonly sold in stores as a curiosity is a member of the pea family.
2informal A delicate or sensitive person.
〈喻〉脆弱敏感的人
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Perhaps the pressure was up because Godard was contested territory, favoured by the Screen group but also ‘the darling of the sensitive plants of Sight and Sound’.
The implication is that poet-critics are some kind of sensitive plant, and their heads are easily turned.
Definition of sensitive plant in US English:
sensitive plant
nounˈsensədiv plant
1A tropical American plant of the pea family, whose leaflets fold together and leaves bend down when touched. A common weed of sugar cane, it has become naturalized throughout the tropics.
含羞草
Mimosa pudica, family Leguminosae
Example sentencesExamples
In temperate climates, the sensitive plant is grown mainly as an indoor plant, usually for its fascinating behaviour.
Mimosa, the sensitive plant, folds up its leaves at night and opens them again in the day.
The sensitive plant commonly sold in stores as a curiosity is a member of the pea family.
2informal A delicate or sensitive person.
〈喻〉脆弱敏感的人
Example sentencesExamples
Perhaps the pressure was up because Godard was contested territory, favoured by the Screen group but also ‘the darling of the sensitive plants of Sight and Sound’.
The implication is that poet-critics are some kind of sensitive plant, and their heads are easily turned.