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–noun

1.	any of numerous plants, shrubs, or trees belonging to the genus Mimosa, of the legume family, native to tropical or warm regions, having small flowers in globular heads or cylindrical spikes and often sensitive leaves.

2.	any of various similar or related plants, esp. of the genus Acacia, as the silver wattle, or Albizzia, as the silk tree.

3.	a cocktail of orange juice and champagne, usually in equal parts.

[Origin: 1695–1705; < NL, equiv. to L mīm(us) mime + -ōsa, fem. of -ōsus -ose¹

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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.
See silk tree.
A drink consisting of champagne and orange juice.

[New Latin Mīmōsa, genus name, from Latin mīmus, mime (from the plant's apparent mimicry of animal reactions), from Greek mīmos.]

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silk tree
n. An Asian tree (Albizia julibrissin) having pinnately compound leaves and heads of pinkish flowers with many long filaments. Also called mimosa.

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mimosa

genus of leguminous shrubs, 1731, coined in Mod.L. (1619) from L. mimus "mime" + -osa, adj. suffix (fem. of -osus); so called because some species (including the common Sensitive Plant) fold leaves when touched, seeming to mimic animal behavior. The alcoholic drink is so called from its yellowish color, which resembles that of the mimosa.

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mimosa
noun
1.	evergreen Australasian tree having white or silvery bark and young leaves and yellow flowers [syn: silver wattle]
2.	any of various tropical shrubs or trees of the genus Mimosa having usually yellow flowers and compound leaves
3.	a mixed drink containing champagne and orange juice

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mimosa [miˈməuzə] noun

a plant with small flowers and fern-like leaves which close when touched (also called sensitive plant)

Arabic:	ميموزا، السِّت المِسْتحِيَّه
Chinese (Simplified):	含羞草
Chinese (Traditional):	含羞草
Czech:	mimóza
Danish:	mimose
Dutch:	mimosa
Estonian:	mimoos
Finnish:	mimoosa
French:	mimosa
German:	die Mimose
Greek:	μιμόζα (είδος φυτού)
Hungarian:	mimóza
Icelandic:	mímósa
Indonesian:	puteri malu
Italian:	mimosa

Japanese:	ミモザ
Korean:	미모사, 신경초
Latvian:	mimoza
Lithuanian:	mimoza
Norwegian:	sanseplante, mimosa(kvist)
Polish:	mimoza
Portuguese (Brazil):	mimosa
Portuguese (Portugal):	mimosa
Romanian:	mimoză
Russian:	мимоза
Slovak:	mimóza
Slovenian:	mimoza
Spanish:	mimosa
Swedish:	mimosa
Turkish:	küstümotu, mimoza

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Mimosa Park, LA (CDP, FIPS 50850) Location: 29.89822 N, 90.34732 W
Population (1990): 4516 (1591 housing units)
Area: 6.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

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Mimosa

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 (M. 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.

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