What is "humble plant"

Humble \Hum"ble\, a. [Compar. Humbler; superl. Humblest.] [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; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.

   THy humble nest built on the ground.
   --Cowley.

2. 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; waek; modest.

   God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
   --Jas. iv. 6.

   She should be humble who would please.
   --Prior.

   Without a humble imitation of the divine Author of our . . . religion we can never hope to be a happy nation.
   --Washington.

   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 humilitation; -- 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.

n. (context botany English) A species of sensitive plant; (taxlink Mimosa pudica species noshow=1).

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]