sensitive plant
noun
1
- a 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。
1.1
- Mimosa pudica, family Leguminosae.拉丁名Mimosa pudica, 豆科。
2
- figurative a delicate or sensitive person〈喻〉脆弱敏感的人。