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GENUS MIMOSA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Genus of spiny woody shrubs or trees; named for their apparent imitation of animal sensitivity to light and heat and movement
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Mimosa" is a kind of...):
rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)
Meronyms (members of "genus Mimosa"):
mimosa (any of various tropical shrubs or trees of the genus Mimosa having usually yellow flowers and compound leaves)
Mimosa sensitiva; sensitive plant (semi-climbing prickly evergreen shrub of tropical America having compound leaves sensitive to light and touch)
action plant; humble plant; live-and-die; Mimosa pudica; sensitive plant; shame plant; touch-me-not (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)
Holonyms ("genus Mimosa" is a member of...):
Mimosoideae; subfamily Mimosoideae (alternative name used in some classification systems for the family Mimosaceae)
