sensitive plant in English

noun
1
a tropical American plant of the pea family, whose leaflets fold together and leaves bend down when touched. A common weed of sugar cane, it has become naturalized throughout the tropics.
Mimosa, the sensitive plant , folds up its leaves at night and opens them again in the day.
2
a delicate or sensitive person.
Perhaps the pressure was up because Godard was contested territory, favoured by the Screen group but also ‘the darling of the sensitive plants of Sight and Sound’.
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1. The behaviour of the petiole ofBrassica oleracea was similar to that ofS. acaule, whilstBegonia rex, an extremely frost sensitive plant, froze similarly toS. tuberosum, but without any indication of a normal double cooling curve.