See shame plant on Wiktionary
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{ "etymology_text": "So called because of its shrinking reaction to being touched. Compare Latin pudica (“shamefaced”) in the taxonomic name.", "forms": [ { "form": "shame plants", "tags": [ "plural" ] }, { "form": "shameplant", "tags": [ "alternative" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "shame plant (plural shame plants)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English nouns", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "en:Mimosa subfamily plants" ], "glosses": [ "Mimosa, especially Mimosa pudica." ], "links": [ [ "Mimosa", "Mimosa#Translingual" ], [ "Mimosa pudica", "Mimosa pudica#Translingual" ] ] } ], "word": "shame plant" }
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