humble plant
Noun
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
Source: WordNetSynonyms
touch-me-not
sensitive plant
Mimosa pudica
action plant
live-and-die
shame plant
mimosa
celandine
jewelweed
parasitic plant
poor plant
holy plant
nameless plant
small set
small plant
Hypernyms
Examples
It is not a new opinion that the Golden Bough was the mistletoe. True, Virgil does not identify but only compares it with the mistletoe. But this may be only a poetical device to cast a mystic glamour over the humble plant.