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to be sensitive to touch

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  • touch one's sore spot — touch a sensitive area, touch a place that causes someone pain …   English contemporary dictionary

  • sensitive plant — 1. Also called humble plant. a tropical American plant, Mimosa pudica, cultivated in greenhouses, having bipinnate leaves whose leaflets fold together when touched. 2. any of various other plants that are sensitive to touch. [1650 60] * * *… …   Universalium

  • sensitive plant — /ˈsɛnsətɪv plænt/ (say sensuhtiv plant) noun 1. a Northern Hemisphere plant, Mimosa pudica, with fern like sensitive leaves which fold together when touched. 2. any of various other plants sensitive to touch, as the giant sensitive plant …  

  • sensitive plant — sen′sitive plant n. 1) pln a tropical American plant, Mimosa pudica, with bipinnate leaves whose leaflets fold together when touched 2) pln any of various other plants that are sensitive to touch …   From formal English to slang

  • touch# — touch vb 1 Touch, feel, palpate, handle, paw can all mean to lay the hand or fingers or an equally sensitive part of the body upon so as to get or produce a sensation often in examination or exploration. Touch usually stresses the act which leads …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • touch´i|ness — touch|y «TUHCH ee», adjective, touch|i|er, touch|i|est. 1. apt to take offense at trifles; too sensitive: »He is tired and very touchy this afternoon. SYNONYM(S): tetchy …   Useful english dictionary

  • touch´i|ly — touch|y «TUHCH ee», adjective, touch|i|er, touch|i|est. 1. apt to take offense at trifles; too sensitive: »He is tired and very touchy this afternoon. SYNONYM(S): tetchy …   Useful english dictionary

  • touch|y — «TUHCH ee», adjective, touch|i|er, touch|i|est. 1. apt to take offense at trifles; too sensitive: »He is tired and very touchy this afternoon. SYNONYM(S): tetchy …   Useful english dictionary

  • Sensitive — Sen si*tive, a. [F. sensitif. See {Sense}.] 1. Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul. [1913 Webster] 2. Having quick and acute sensibility, either to… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Sensitive fern — Sensitive Sen si*tive, a. [F. sensitif. See {Sense}.] 1. Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul. [1913 Webster] 2. Having quick and acute sensibility,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Sensitive flame — Sensitive Sen si*tive, a. [F. sensitif. See {Sense}.] 1. Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul. [1913 Webster] 2. Having quick and acute sensibility,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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