shame plant

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shame plant - 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 action plant, humble plant, live-and-die, Mimosa pudica, sensitive plant, touch-me-not genus Mimosa - genus of spiny woody shrubs or trees; named for their apparent imitation of animal sensitivity to light and heat and movement mimosa - any of various tropical shrubs or trees of the genus Mimosa having usually yellow flowers and compound leaves