humble plant

American  

noun

1. sensitive plant.

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Etymology

Origin of humble plant

First recorded in 1655–65

Example Sentences

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humble plant

Just 4 to 6 inches tall, the humble plant is, in one particular way, the most remarkable living thing in the world.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2024

If you find it strange that such a humble plant has such a gigantic genome, scientists do, too.

From New York Times ● May 31, 2024

It is a humble plant, but fragrant; where it grows abundantly the miasma of the bog is neutralized by its balsamic odors and antiseptic qualities, disease is displaced and health established.

From Two Decades A History of the First Twenty Years' Work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the State of New York by Graham, Frances W.

Compared with the long past of this humble plant, all the history of civilized men is but an episode.

From Evolution and Ethics by Huxley, Thomas Henry

Hence descend aerial roots, clasping and ultimately destroying the supporting tree, which is in time entirely replaced by the humble plant which was at first dependent upon it.

From The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 by Wallace, Alfred Russel