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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 touch-me-not /ˈtʌʧmiˌnɑt/
 水金鳳,鳳仙花,高傲的人

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Touch-me-not n. Bot. (a) See Impatiens. (b) Squirting cucumber. See under Cucumber.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 touch-me-not
      n 1: 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, Impatiens
           capensis]
      2: Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels
         its seeds and juice violently when touched [syn: squirting
         cucumber, exploding cucumber, Ecballium elaterium]
      3: prostrate or semi-erect subshrub of tropical America, and
         Australia; heavily armed with recurved thorns and having
         sensitive soft gray-green leaflets that fold and droop at
         night or when touched or cooled [syn: sensitive plant, shame
         plant, live-and-die, humble plant, action plant, Mimosa
         pudica]