Found 2 hits - Term: humble plant, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
humble \hum"ble\ hu^m"b'l; 277, a. compar. humbler
hu^m"bl~er; superl. humblest hu^m"ble^st. f.,
fr. l. humilis on the ground, low, fr. humus the earth,
ground. see homage, and cf. chameleon, humiliate.
1. near the ground; not high or lofty.
1913 webster
thy humble nest built on the ground. --cowley.
1913 webster
2. not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming;
modest; as, a humble cottage. used to describe objects.
1913 webster
3. thinking lowly of one's self; claiming little for one's
self; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; thinking one's
self ill-deserving or unworthy, when judged by the demands
of god; lowly; weak; modest. used to describe people.
1913 webster
god resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the
humble. --jas. iv. 6.
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she should be humble who would please. --prior.
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without a humble imitation of the divine author of
our . . . religion we can never hope to be a happy
nation. --washington.
1913 webster
humble plant bot., a species of sensitive plant, of the
genus mimosa mimosa sensitiva.
to eat humble pie, to endure mortification; to submit or
apologize abjectly; to yield passively to insult or
humiliation; -- a phrase derived from a pie made of the
entrails or humbles of a deer, which was formerly served
to servants and retainers at a hunting feast. see
humbles. --halliwell. --thackeray.
1913 webster
see also:
humbler humblest homage chameleon humiliate humble plant
mimosa mimosa sensitiva to eat humble pie humbles
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
humble plant
n : prostrate or semi-erect subshrub of tropical america, and
australia; heavily armed with recurved thorns and having
sensitive soft gray-green leaflets that fold and droop at
night or when touched or cooled syn: sensitive plant,
touch-me-not, shame plant, live-and-die, action
plant, mimosa pudica
see also:
sensitive plant touch-me-not shame plant live-and-die action plant mimosa pudica
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Plant, definition of term: Plant
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Humble, definition of term: Humble
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