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    humble plant
    [ noun ]
    prostrate or semi-erect subshrub of tropical America, and Australia; heavily armed with recurved thorns and having sensitive soft grey-green leaflets that fold and droop at night or when touched or cooled
    <noun.plant>


    Humble \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} ({Mimosa 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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