'Touch-me-not' definitions:

Definition of 'touch-me-not'

From: WordNet
noun
North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil [syn: jewelweed, lady's earrings, orange balsam, celandine, touch-me-not, Impatiens capensis]
noun
Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched [syn: squirting cucumber, exploding cucumber, touch-me-not, Ecballium elaterium]
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 [syn: sensitive plant, touch-me-not, shame plant, live-and-die, humble plant, action plant, Mimosa pudica]

Definition of 'Touch-me-not'

From: GCIDE
  • Touch-me-not \Touch"-me-not`\ (t[u^]ch"m[-e]*n[o^]t`), n. (Bot.) (a) See Impatiens. (b) Squirting cucumber. See under Cucumber. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'touch-me-not'

From: GCIDE
  • Impatiens \Im*pa"ti*ens\ ([i^]m*p[=a]"sh[i^]*[e^]nz), prop. n. [L., impatient.] (Bot.) A genus of plants, several species of which have very beautiful flowers; -- so called because the elastic capsules burst when touched, and scatter the seeds with considerable force. Called also touch-me-not, jewelweed, and snapweed. Impatiens Balsamina (sometimes called {lady's slipper}) is the common garden balsam. [1913 Webster]