Definitions for touch-me-not

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Spelling: [tuhch-mee-not]
IPA: /ˈtʌtʃ miˌnɒt/

Touch-Me-Not is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 337 anagrams from letters in touch-me-not (--cehmnoottu).

Definitions for touch-me-not

noun

  1. any of several plants belonging to the genus Impatiens, of the balsam family, especially I. noli-tangere, bearing pods that, when ripe, burst on being touched, scattering the seeds.

Origin of touch-me-not

First recorded in 1590-1600

Examples for touch-me-not

This may do for the touch-me-not, only child, but in American society it is never a strong plea.

Youre a sort of touch-me-not and Id make friends with any one.

Examples—violet, jewel-weed (touch-me-not), sweet-pea, witch-hazel.

These plants present the most remarkable blending of the rigid, uncompromising, touch-me-not aspect and the ethereal and fragile.

He does have rather a touch-me-not, speak-to-me-never manner.

Do you not remember how the leaf of the jewel weed, or touch-me-not, as it is also called, shines when you plunge it in water?

Mutikyup ang hibìhibì kun makahilan, The leaves of the touch-me-not close when you touch it.

touch-me-not was a nick-name given her long ago by her friends.

I forgot you had grown up into a young woman; another word for touch-me-not—ha!

She had a touch-me-not way of blighting the inane inquiries of grown-up people.

Word Value for touch-me-not
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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