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sensitive plant — noun 1. 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 • Syn: ↑touch me not, ↑shame… … Useful english dictionary
Wild sensitive plant — Wild Wild, a. [Compar. {Wilder}; superl. {Wildest}.] [OE. wilde, AS. wilde; akin to OFries. wilde, D. wild, OS. & OHG. wildi, G. wild, Sw. & Dan. vild, Icel. villr wild, bewildered, astray, Goth. wilpeis wild, and G. & OHG. wild game, deer; of… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Metro Vancouver — This article is about the governing body of the Greater Vancouver Regional District. For the urban geographic entity, see Greater Vancouver. GVRD redirects here. For the Greater Victoria Region, see Greater Victoria, British Columbia. Metro… … Wikipedia
Mimosa pigra — Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked) … Wikipedia
horticulture — horticultural, adj. horticulturist, n. /hawr ti kul cheuhr/, n. 1. the cultivation of a garden, orchard, or nursery; the cultivation of flowers, fruits, vegetables, or ornamental plants. 2. the science and art of cultivating such plants. [1670… … Universalium
Banksia ericifolia — taxobox name = Heath leaved Banksia image caption = Banksia ericifolia , cultivated at Colac, Victoria regnum = Plantae unranked divisio = Angiosperms unranked classis = Eudicots ordo = Proteales familia = Proteaceae genus = Banksia species = B.… … Wikipedia
Banksia menziesii — Firewood banksia Tree habit, Jandakot Botanical Gardens Scientific classification Kingdom … Wikipedia
plant — plantable, adj. plantless, adj. plantlike, adj. /plant, plahnt/, n. 1. any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that… … Universalium
scrubland — /skrub land /, n. land on which the natural vegetation is chiefly scrub. [1770 80, Amer.; SCRUB2 + LAND] * * * ▪ ecology Introduction also called shrubland, heathland, or chaparral, diverse assortment of vegetation types sharing the common … Universalium
Nerium — Oleander redirects here. For other uses, see Oleander (disambiguation). Nerium Nerium oleander in flower Scientific classification … Wikipedia
