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n. Any of various mostly tropical herbs, shrubs, and trees of the genus Mimosa, having globular heads of small flowers with protruding stamens and usually bipinnate, compound leaves that are often sensitive to touch or light.

n. See silk tree.

n. A drink consisting of champagne and orange juice.

n. A plant belonging to the genus Mimosa usually found in tropical climates, their leaves are usually prickly and sensitive to touch or light, and have small white or pink flowers.

n. Silk tree or the pink siris.

n. Acacia.

n. A cocktail consisting of champagne and orange juice.

n. A genus of leguminous plants, containing many species, and including the sensitive plants (Mimosa sensitiva, and Mimosa pudica).

n. A large genus of leguminous plants of the suborder Mimoseæ and the tribe Eumimoseæ, characterized by a legume with entire or jointed valves which break away from a narrow persistent placenta.

n. [lowercase] A plant of this genus.

n. Same as thiazol yellow.

n. any of various tropical shrubs or trees of the genus Mimosa having usually yellow flowers and compound leaves

n. evergreen Australasian tree having white or silvery bark and young leaves and yellow flowers

n. a mixed drink containing champagne and orange juice

"The Mimosa tree pictured and described here, or what they call mimosa in the southeastern US is not the same mimosa that people are familiar with in Europe and the Middle East."

wattle    mixed drink   

Formosa    Reynosa    Sosa    amargosa    cosa    filosa    mariposa    mucosa    ponderosa   

acacia    hawthorn    rhododendron    horse-chestnut    magnolia    myrtle    oleander    dogwood    syringa    palmetto