a. Obs.–0 [f. Gr. αἰσχυνόμεν-ος ashamed, bashful + -OUS.] Sensitive (plants).
1706. Phillips, Æschynomenous Plants (among Herbalists) those Plants which as one comes near them with the Hand, shrink in their Leaves, the same with the Sensitive.
1751. Chambers, Cycl., Æschynomenous Plants, among botanists, are those popularly called sensitive plants.
