Definitionn. evergreen Australasian tree having white or silvery bark and young leaves and yellow flowers
Last update: July 28, 2015
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The lawns are surrounded by mimosa. [Please select]
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These occur on the tips of tendrils and on the tentacles of Drosera; (2) sensitive papillae found on the irritable filaments of certain stamens; and (3) sensitive hairs or bristles on the leaves of Dionaea muscipula and Mimosa pudicaall of which are so constructed that any pressure exerted on them at once reacts on the protoplasm. [Please select]
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Oswell was standing under one of the mimosa-trees which grow plentifully in this part of the country. [Please select]
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We found the enemy standing at bay under a mimosa tree. [Please select]
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I withered him with a look, or rather _tried_ to wither him, for Tom is no Mimosa bud. [Please select]
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The mimosa-bushes still retained their delicate foliage, which would not have been the case had the locusts visited the spot. [Please select]
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Sensitive flowers, the scarlet pimpernel, the African mimosa, close their delicate petals, and a sense of hushed expectancy deepens with the darkness. [Please select]
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I now learn that this very mimosa (Acacia farnesiana) originates in tropical America, and was undoubtedly unknown in ancient Egypt. [Please select]
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