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jewelweed

Impatiens \Im*pa"ti*ens\ ([i^]m*p[=a]"sh[i^]*[e^]nz), prop. n. [L., impatient.] (Bot.) A genus of plants, several species of which have very beautiful flowers; -- so called because the elastic capsules burst when touched, and scatter the seeds with considerable force. Called also touch-me-not, jewelweed, and snapweed. Impatiens Balsamina (sometimes called lady's slipper) is the common garden balsam.

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jewelweed

n. (context US English) ''impatiens'', especially ''Impatiens capensis'' and ''Impatiens pallida''.

WordNet
jewelweed

n. North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil [syn: lady's earrings, orange balsam, celandine, touch-me-not, Impatiens capensis]

Usage examples of "jewelweed".

Kilisha had never heard of jewelweed, but she assumed she could get it from any good herbalist.

She still needed the chair and bench and couch, and jewelweed, whatever that was.

Kilisha suppressed the urge to say anything about the absurdity of such an amount, or to mention that in fact Ithanalin had had jewelweed on hand all along.

She proceeded slowly and carefully, crushing the jewelweed leaves in her hand and flinging some in the water, others onto the incense, where they flared up briefly before being reduced to flying ash.

Just as things come ripe, the creatures always set their webs, sewn with perfect zigzag seams, across the swathes of grass, jewelweed, goldenrod, milkweed, and burdock behind the sagging barn.

Everywhere, I find jewelweed, or touch-me-not, frail bushes of tiny, fierce, golden-mouthed flowers, spitting seeds.

Beside the brooks and rills grew ferns and jewelweed, hawksbalm, and the velvet-blue leaves of shan, all of them flourishing as if in defiance of the shade cast by the wood.

He splashed some into the mortar and dribbled a pinch of jewelweed powder into the mix.

Less than a full day from that moment, just after nightfall, the priest would return for his jewelweed potion.

Apple trees hanging heavy with fruit but yet unaccountably blossoming, ice rimming the spring, okra plants blooming yellow and maroon, maple leaves red as October, corn tops tas-seling, a stuffed chair pulled up to the glowing parlor hearth, pumpkins shining in the fields, laurels blooming on the hillsides, ditch banks full of orange jewelweed, white blossoms on dogwood, purple on redbud.

Along the way, her arms kept brushing against the numerous jewelweed plants, which immediately burst forth with bright orangish flowers when touched.

I emerged from the jewelweed and sat on a boulder by the rushing stream.

The oval plot at the center that had been populated with violet lilies and pale yellow jewelweed when Grimes had visited was now overgrown with thick grasses that were strangling the few perennials that had survived.

Sam washed it with cold water, saw it was not severe, and patched it with jewelweed leaves to stop the flow of blood.

One moment I was tossing out witty comments to anyone who would listen and the next I was bent over, throwing up a grey spume of tea and biscuits into a patch of jewelweed by the back steps.