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Definition of Mimosa pudica
1. 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.
Group relationships: Genus Mimosa
Generic synonyms: Mimosa
Medical Definition of Mimosa pudica
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Mimosa Pudica
Literary usage of Mimosa pudica
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Plant Physiology: An Introduction to Original Research for by Wilhelm Detmer, S. A. (Samuel Albert) Moor (1898)
"Experiments with mimosa pudica and other Plants. The leaflets of mimosa pudica
perform movements both as the result of shock or contact and in consequence ..."
2. Botanical Microtechnique: A Hand-book of Methods for the Preparation by A[lbrecht] Zimmermann (1893)
"from the Stimulus-conducting Tissue of mimosa pudica. 164. Haberlandt (I, 17)
has observed that when the stem or petiole of mimosa pudica is cut, ..."
3. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1830)
"... Experiments on the mimosa pudica. By ROBERT SPITTAL, Esq. one of the Presidents
of the Plinian Natural History Society. .As I have not observed any ..."
4. A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts by William Nicholson (1810)
"Diagrams illustrating the Art of Aerial Navigation, hy Sir George Cay ley, Bart; 4.
Leaf of the mimosa pudica, by Mr. Robert ..."
5. The Power of Movement in Plants by Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1900)
"... not developed on young plants, state of their pulvini—Cassia: complex movements
of the leaflets—Bauhinia : leaves folded at night— mimosa pudica ..."
6. The Medico-chirurgical Review by James Johnson, Henry James Johnson (1829)
"experiments and observations made upon the impatiens Balsamina, Momordica Elate
rium, mimosa pudica, and other plants, ..."
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