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Definition of Mimosa sensitiva
1. Noun. Semi-climbing prickly evergreen shrub of tropical America having compound leaves sensitive to light and touch.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mimosa Sensitiva
Literary usage of Mimosa sensitiva
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southern Literary Messenger by Carnegie-Mellon University, School of Computer Science (1838)
"... plant (mimosa sensitiva.) If you touch the oyster, it gives evidence of the
possession of feeling, by closing its shell. Touch the sensitive plant, ..."
2. Botanical Miscellany: Containing Figures and Descriptions of Such Plants as by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1831)
"mimosa sensitiva. Linn.—Bot. Reg. t. 25. De Cand. Prodr. v. 2. p. 427. ...
mimosa sensitiva of Linn, is considered as a native of the Eastern Coast of South ..."
3. Medical and Physiological Commentaries by Martyn Paine (1840)
"The proof from electricity may be also shown to be fallacious by referring to
its action upon the mimosa sensitiva, where, by parity of reason, ..."
4. Biological Lectures Delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory of Wood's (1894)
"... Mimosa pudica and mimosa sensitiva, also Oxalis sensitiva, are irritable to
contact. I have not only been able to add several to Darwin's list, ..."
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