touch-me-not
- n North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil
- n Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched
- n 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
- Not since his "last press conference" in 1962 has what George Wallace calls Nixon's "antiseptic, touch-me-not bubble" really been broken.
- The idea that a King is a man who lives in a beautiful house surrounded by silk-dressed valets and plumed lackeys, fine soldiers and such sort of peoplea kind of touch-me-not .
- His son Ray proves to be a mean little stinker who kills puppy dogs, and his daughter Thelma a snobbish, touch-me-not icicle who is ashamed of her father and mother and their .