Definition of Touch-me-not

1. Noun. North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil.


2. Noun. Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched.
Exact synonyms: Ecballium Elaterium, Exploding Cucumber, Squirting Cucumber
Generic synonyms: Gourd, Gourd Vine
Group relationships: Ecballium, Genus Ecballium

3. Noun. 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.
Exact synonyms: Action Plant, Humble Plant, Live-and-die, Mimosa Pudica, Sensitive Plant, Shame Plant
Group relationships: Genus Mimosa
Generic synonyms: Mimosa

Definition of Touch-me-not

1. Noun. Any of several unrelated plants which react when touched. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Touch-me-not

1. See Impatiens. Squirting cucumber. See Cucumber. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Touch-me-not

toubabs
toucan
toucan crossing
toucan crossings
toucanet
toucanets
toucanlike
toucans
touch
touch'd
touch-and-go
touch-and-go landing
touch-and-go landings
touch-hole
touch-mark
touch-me-not (current term)
touch-move
touch-needle
touch-needles
touch-paper
touch-papers
touch-screen
touch-screens
touch-tone
touch-tone dialing
touch-tone dialling
touch-type
touch-typed
touch-types
touch-typing

Literary usage of Touch-me-not

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ninety-six Sermons by Lancelot Andrewes (1850)
"Jesus saith unto her, Touch Me not, for I am not yet ascended to My Father ; but go to My brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto My Father and your ..."

2. History of the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770: Consisting of the Narrative by Frederic Kidder, John Adams (1870)
"... that is a blow; the law will not oblige a man to stand still and bear it; there is the distinction ; hands off, touch me not; as soon as you touch me, ..."

3. Works by Lancelot Andrewes, John Buckeridge (1854)
"Jesus saith unto her, Touch Me not, for I am not yet ascended to My Father ; but go to My brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto My Father and your ..."

4. Masterpieces of Eloquence: Famous Orations of Great World Leaders from Early by Mayo Williamson Hazeltine (1905)
"Hands off; touch me not. As soon as you touch me, if I run you through the heart, it is but manslaughter. The utility of this distinction, ..."

5. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"The wood is soft and weak, but is employed in the manufacture FlG'15"- touch-me-not- After Britton and Brown, of some woodenware and for wood-pulp. ..."

6. Time Flies: A Reading Diary by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1902)
"Touch Me not; for I am not yet ascended to My Father," said He to His beloved and loving worshipper : denying her—who can doubt ..."

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