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Definition of i mpatiens in English English dictionary
- impatiens
- Any of various ornamental plants of the genus Impatiens
- impatiens
- Called also touch-me-not, jewelweed, and snapweed
- impatiens
- {i} any of a number of plants in the balsam family having beautiful flowers and seed pods which burst open and scatter seeds when touched
- impatiens
- Balsamina (sometimes called lady's slipper) is the common garden balsam
- impatiens
- A genus of flowering plants of the family Balsaminaceae comprising many species, among then Busy Lizzie
- impatiens
- Any of about 900 species of herbaceous plants in the genus Impatiens (balsam family), so named because the seedpod bursts when slightly touched. Garden balsam (I. balsamina), native to the tropics of Asia, is a favourite showy annual in U.S. gardens; its flowers are irregular, single or clustered, and of almost every colour but blue. Familiar related weeds in eastern North America are spotted jewelweed (I. biflora or I. capensis) and pale touch-me-not. Most impatiens have weak, hollow stems and require high moisture. Close relatives are geraniums and nasturtiums
- impatiens
- 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
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Turkish - English
Definition of i mpatiens in Turkish English dictionary
- touchmenot
- See under Cucumber
- Squirting cucumber