sensitive plantn.

Brit.

/ˈsɛnsᵻtɪv ˌplɑːnt/,

/ˈsɛnsᵻtɪv ˌplant/, U.S.

/ˈsɛnsədɪv ˌplænt/

Forms: see sensitive adj. and n. and plant n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: sensitive adj., plant n.¹

Etymology: < sensitive adj. + plant n.¹

†a. A living organism, esp. a sessile aquatic invertebrate, classed as intermediate between animals and plants or thought to share qualities of both animals and plants. Cf. zoophyte n. 1 Obsolete.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > zoophyte > [noun]

sensitive plant1601

zoophyton1601

zoophyte1606

plant-animal1621

zoophyton1627

animal plant1736

phytozoon1842

zoothome1872

1601 R. Dolman tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. III. 126 The soule and life is onely attributed to fower kindes of creatures: that is, to herbes, trees, and plants, a nourishing or vegetatiue soule and life: to sensitiue plants [Fr. Plantanimees], as sea-sponges, oisters, cockles, &c. a sensitiue [soule and life] [Fr. la sensitiue].

1626 S. Purchas Pilgrimage (ed. 4) v. xiii. 568 A sensitiue Plant, which mooueth it selfe but not out of the same place, as Oysters and the like.

1658 tr. M. C. de La Chambre Disc. Knowledg of Beasts i. 30 What inequality will not be found in the distribution of the Senses if we would measure the difference which there is amongst Animals? for the sight, from the Mole to the Eagle; for smel, from Insects to the Dog; for touch, from Spunges, or if you will from the sensitive Plant to Man.

b. Originally: the plant Mimosa pudica which has leaflets that fold together when touched. In later use also: any plant that is able to respond to touch or other physical stimulus with movement. Cf. zoophyte n. 2. American sensitive plant, bastard sensitive plant, false sensitive plant: see the first element.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > [noun] > mimosa or sensitive plant

sensitive plant1640

shrinking shrub1640

humble plant1664

sensitive1707

touch-me-not1728

mimosa1731

inga tree1756

soldier-wood1823

inga1838

soldier-plant1864

1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum xvii. lxv. 1617 This other Mimick, Mocking or Sensitive plant groweth to be a wooddy Shrubbe, yea some say to be a tree.

1659 R. Lovell Παμβοτανολογια 524 Sensitive plant, Herba sensibilis.

1683 J. Norris Idea of Happiness 9 When I drew nigh enough to grasp the alluring Happiness, like the Sensitive Plant it contracted it self at the touch, and shrink'd almost to nothing in the Fruition.

1709 J. Swift & J. Addison Tatler No. 32 She shrinks from the Touch like a Sensitive Plant.

1757 J. Hill Sleep of Plants 37 In the night the sensitive plant is not capable of the common motion on the touch, for the leaves are already in the condition whereto they would be reduced by it.

1778 J. Abercrombie Universal Gardener & Botanist at Stove Mimosa, Sensitive plant.—All the species. (Shrubby and Herbaceous.)

1820 P. B. Shelley Sensitive Plant in Prometheus Unbound 157 A Sensitive Plant in a garden grew.

1871 C. Kingsley At Last II. xi. 95 So away we went..through broad-leaved grasses, and the pink balls of the sensitive-plants.

1897 Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper 25 Apr. 14/4 (advt.) Shilling's choice flower seeds for present sowing, of the finest strains obtainable..Edelweiss, Golden Feather, Sensitive Plant, Ferns.

1921 A. Huxley Crome Yellow xix. 200 ‘Pray, don't talk to me of eating,’ said Emmeline, drooping like a sensitive plant. ‘We find it so coarse, so unspiritual, my sisters and I.’

1981 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 78 402/1 In Schrankia microphylla (Leguminosae), a sensitive plant indigenous to the southern United States, leaf folding could play a defensive role.

2013 New Yorker 23 Dec. 96/3 Mimosa pudica, also called the ‘sensitive plant’, is that rare plant species with..a behavior so speedy and visible that animals can observe it.

2. figurative and in figurative contexts.

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the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > capacity for emotion > sensitiveness or tenderness > [noun] > sensitive person

sensitive plant1665

man of feeling1771

sensitive1807

soul1814

sensitivist1839

tender-heart1904

the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > capacity for emotion > sensitiveness or tenderness > [noun] > excessive sensitiveness > person

sensitive plant1665

1665 T. Jeamson Artific. Embellishm. i. iii. 30 If in the flowry enamell of Natures garden there be any sensitive plant tis beauty.

1724 T. Wearing Serm. Consecration St. Andrew’s Church Penrith 23 in Two Serm. To bear off Modesty, and leave that sensitive Plant of Vertue untouch'd.

1781 T. L. O'Beirne Generous Impostor 34 What sensitive plants are your true lovers? The cruel one has touch'd you a little too roughly, and there you stand shrunk and shrivell'd.

1821 P. Egan Boxiana III. 236 Martin went to work with both his hands so quickly, that his opponent's sensitive plant rolled about like a humming top, and he fell out of the ring covered with crimson.

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer xiii. 139 Let but a single cloud darken the summer sky,..and the heart, that sensitive plant, shrinks instinctively at nature's warning.

1926 J. Galsworthy Silver Spoon i. vi. 41 Well, sir, the Press is a sensitive plant. I'm afraid you might make it curl up.

1974 ‘S. Woods’ Done to Death 190 ‘So nice to be considered a sensitive plant,’ said Emma.

2006 N.Y. Times 1 Dec. e3/4 Given Philip's self-defined role as a fitness-obsessed hunk, he seems a bit too much of a sensitive plant.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	sensitive plant
释义	sensitive plantn. Brit. /ˈsɛnsᵻtɪv ˌplɑːnt/, /ˈsɛnsᵻtɪv ˌplant/, U.S. /ˈsɛnsədɪv ˌplænt/ Forms: see sensitive adj. and n. and plant n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: sensitive adj., plant n.¹ Etymology: < sensitive adj. + plant n.¹ 1. †a. A living organism, esp. a sessile aquatic invertebrate, classed as intermediate between animals and plants or thought to share qualities of both animals and plants. Cf. zoophyte n. 1 Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > zoophyte > [noun] sensitive plant1601 zoophyton1601 zoophyte1606 plant-animal1621 zoophyton1627 animal plant1736 phytozoon1842 zoothome1872 1601 R. Dolman tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. III. 126 The soule and life is onely attributed to fower kindes of creatures: that is, to herbes, trees, and plants, a nourishing or vegetatiue soule and life: to sensitiue plants [Fr. Plantanimees], as sea-sponges, oisters, cockles, &c. a sensitiue [soule and life] [Fr. la sensitiue]. 1626 S. Purchas Pilgrimage (ed. 4) v. xiii. 568 A sensitiue Plant, which mooueth it selfe but not out of the same place, as Oysters and the like. 1658 tr. M. C. de La Chambre Disc. Knowledg of Beasts i. 30 What inequality will not be found in the distribution of the Senses if we would measure the difference which there is amongst Animals? for the sight, from the Mole to the Eagle; for smel, from Insects to the Dog; for touch, from Spunges, or if you will from the sensitive Plant to Man. b. Originally: the plant Mimosa pudica which has leaflets that fold together when touched. In later use also: any plant that is able to respond to touch or other physical stimulus with movement. Cf. zoophyte n. 2. American sensitive plant, bastard sensitive plant, false sensitive plant: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > [noun] > mimosa or sensitive plant sensitive plant1640 shrinking shrub1640 humble plant1664 sensitive1707 touch-me-not1728 mimosa1731 inga tree1756 soldier-wood1823 inga1838 soldier-plant1864 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum xvii. lxv. 1617 This other Mimick, Mocking or Sensitive plant groweth to be a wooddy Shrubbe, yea some say to be a tree. 1659 R. Lovell Παμβοτανολογια 524 Sensitive plant, Herba sensibilis. 1683 J. Norris Idea of Happiness 9 When I drew nigh enough to grasp the alluring Happiness, like the Sensitive Plant it contracted it self at the touch, and shrink'd almost to nothing in the Fruition. 1709 J. Swift & J. Addison Tatler No. 32 She shrinks from the Touch like a Sensitive Plant. 1757 J. Hill Sleep of Plants 37 In the night the sensitive plant is not capable of the common motion on the touch, for the leaves are already in the condition whereto they would be reduced by it. 1778 J. Abercrombie Universal Gardener & Botanist at Stove Mimosa, Sensitive plant.—All the species. (Shrubby and Herbaceous.) 1820 P. B. Shelley Sensitive Plant in Prometheus Unbound 157 A Sensitive Plant in a garden grew. 1871 C. Kingsley At Last II. xi. 95 So away we went..through broad-leaved grasses, and the pink balls of the sensitive-plants. 1897 Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper 25 Apr. 14/4 (advt.) Shilling's choice flower seeds for present sowing, of the finest strains obtainable..Edelweiss, Golden Feather, Sensitive Plant, Ferns. 1921 A. Huxley Crome Yellow xix. 200 ‘Pray, don't talk to me of eating,’ said Emmeline, drooping like a sensitive plant. ‘We find it so coarse, so unspiritual, my sisters and I.’ 1981 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 78 402/1 In Schrankia microphylla (Leguminosae), a sensitive plant indigenous to the southern United States, leaf folding could play a defensive role. 2013 New Yorker 23 Dec. 96/3 Mimosa pudica, also called the ‘sensitive plant’, is that rare plant species with..a behavior so speedy and visible that animals can observe it. 2. figurative and in figurative contexts. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > capacity for emotion > sensitiveness or tenderness > [noun] > sensitive person sensitive plant1665 man of feeling1771 sensitive1807 soul1814 sensitivist1839 tender-heart1904 the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > capacity for emotion > sensitiveness or tenderness > [noun] > excessive sensitiveness > person sensitive plant1665 1665 T. Jeamson Artific. Embellishm. i. iii. 30 If in the flowry enamell of Natures garden there be any sensitive plant tis beauty. 1724 T. Wearing Serm. Consecration St. Andrew’s Church Penrith 23 in Two Serm. To bear off Modesty, and leave that sensitive Plant of Vertue untouch'd. 1781 T. L. O'Beirne Generous Impostor 34 What sensitive plants are your true lovers? The cruel one has touch'd you a little too roughly, and there you stand shrunk and shrivell'd. 1821 P. Egan Boxiana III. 236 Martin went to work with both his hands so quickly, that his opponent's sensitive plant rolled about like a humming top, and he fell out of the ring covered with crimson. 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer xiii. 139 Let but a single cloud darken the summer sky,..and the heart, that sensitive plant, shrinks instinctively at nature's warning. 1926 J. Galsworthy Silver Spoon i. vi. 41 Well, sir, the Press is a sensitive plant. I'm afraid you might make it curl up. 1974 ‘S. Woods’ Done to Death 190 ‘So nice to be considered a sensitive plant,’ said Emma. 2006 N.Y. Times 1 Dec. e3/4 Given Philip's self-defined role as a fitness-obsessed hunk, he seems a bit too much of a sensitive plant. 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