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LIVE-AND-DIE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does live-and-die mean?
• LIVE-AND-DIE (noun)
The noun LIVE-AND-DIE has 1 sense:
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
Familiarity information: LIVE-AND-DIE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
action plant; humble plant; live-and-die; Mimosa pudica; sensitive plant; shame plant; touch-me-not
Hypernyms ("live-and-die" is a kind of...):
mimosa (any of various tropical shrubs or trees of the genus Mimosa having usually yellow flowers and compound leaves)
Holonyms ("live-and-die" is a member of...):
genus Mimosa (genus of spiny woody shrubs or trees; named for their apparent imitation of animal sensitivity to light and heat and movement)
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