In these latter is water seasoned with mimosa bark.
Mechanical response to wireless stimulation is exhibited by the leaf of Mimosa pudica.
Increased turgor due to indirect stimulation, inducing erection of Mimosa leaf: (a) diagram of the experiment, point of application of stimulus indicated by arrow.
Thus the leaflets of Mimosa pudica acted on by light from above fold upwards, the phototropic effect being positive.
I shall presently describe in detail a typical experiment of the effect of unilateral stimulus of light on the responsive movement of main pulvinus of Mimosa pudica.
Record of torsional response of pulvinus of Mimosa pudica.
We passed village after village that had been burnt, and were mere blackened heaps of charred timber and smoked clay; field after field of grain ripe years ago was yet standing in the midst of a crop of gums and thorns, mimosa and kolquall.
The forests of this country are chiefly composed of the gum and thorn species--mimosa and tamarisk, with often a variety of wild fruit trees.
Note: The termmimosa is also applied in commerce to several kinds bark imported from Australia, and used in tanning; -- called also wattle bark.
Defn: A genus of leguminous plants, containing many species, and including the sensitive plants (Mimosa sensitiva, and M.
So far from being dazed, his faculties were fully alert, and presently he began quartering the ground in widening circles until he reached the edge of the bush, when he stopped under a spreading mimosa and keenly examined the ground beneath.
Moving the limb under a stream of sunlight, and bidding Klaas support it, she washed out the wound, then brought the gaping ends together, and stitched them with a dried thorn of mimosa and sinews.
Thus, during a morning's walk through the camps, you may be escorted in succession by four or five vicious birds, all determined to have your life if possible, yet held completely in check by a few mimosa thorns.
Meanwhile Mashune employed himself in dragging together some dead boughs from the mimosa trees to make a sort of 'skerm,' or shelter for us to sleep in, about forty yards from the edge of the pool of water.
Moreover, the holy man, after compassing the death of the oilman’s son, has suspended him head downwards from a mimosa tree in a cemetery.
From the dusk beneath the window the fragrance of the mimosa tree floated into the room.
On the western side of the house there was a spreadingmimosa tree, its sensitive branches brushing the green shutters of a window in the second story.
Against the panes the dripping branches of the shiveringmimosa tree beat themselves and moaned.
On the northern face the enemy were making but little headway; their force there consisted mainly of Manyema, and as yet the screen of mimosa and cactus was almost intact.
At one point on each face of the zariba he so arranged the screen of mimosa and cactus that it formed a rough gateway opening outwards, thus allowing, if opportunity should arise, of a rapid sally by the defenders.
Without further ado, mimosa branches were cut and a zeriba was formed on a small scale round the village.
After we had pitched our tents amongst somemimosa scrub, during which process our barefooted servants leapt about like cats on hot bricks, we were informed that the Sirdar would receive the correspondents in his tent.
The banks were clothed with the bright green foliage of the nebek and mimosa bushes, which afforded shelter to innumerable birds.
We struggled on in the uneven scrub, pushing through mimosa thorns and falling over logs of palm wood, while our servants struck matches to look for the hoof-marks of the cavalry.
If a butterfly settled on the ground I stalked it carefully, and then fell upon it with the towel; but I often rose from the earth with no butterfly, and nothing in my hands except half a dozen mimosa thorns.
The sun hung low in the blue sky and shot its beams between the palm slits, making a brilliant tracery on the smooth paths where it pierced a passage between the branches of the mimosa trees, yellow with their golden balls.
She leaned her arms on the broad rail, and stared unseeingly before her through the foliage of the mimosa trees into the blue distance.
The bark of the Mimosa decurrens, which abounds in Australia and Van Diemen's Land, is found to be a very powerful tanning agent.
Verily Allah has blessed me in giving you into my hands, for behold your thoughts are as sweet to me as the wind that blows through the mimosa trees at dawn.
Acle (Mimosa acle) gives logs up to 32 feet by 28 inches square.
It is possible to cause the Mimosa leaves to close by means of an electric shock.
Unhurt, even unscratched by the lion, I quickly swung myself up into the biggest mimosa near, a poor four feet from the ground, within easy reach of our enemy if he had not been too sick of his wounds to leap at me.
Soon my hands were bleeding from the dry mimosa thorns littering the ground, my back from the thorny boughs arching low above me.
Within two hours the pony men succeeded in circling the quarry and stopping it in a mimosa thicket.
First, from the perfectly safe shelter of a zareba, a tightly enclosed hut built of thorny mimosa bows, with no opening but a narrow porthole for rifle fire.
Arrived, I found the Sahib and about a dozen men, shikaris and pony men, surrounding a dense mimosa thicket no more than thirty or forty yards in diameter.
The leaves of the palm and the branches of the mimosa hung motionless; the sea alone was agitated.
The leaves of the palms and the branches of the mimosa hung limp and motionless.
It contained a spray of mimosa packed in cotton wool, and lying like an elf among the petals was a little sleeping bat.
Our camp was pitched under a single large mimosa tree near the edge of a deep and narrow ravine down which a stream flowed.
Accordingly, after we had pitched camp just within a fringe of mimosa trees and of red-flowering aloes near the river; had eaten lunch, smoked a pipe and issued necessary orders to the men, C.
The country had now become undulating, extensivemimosa groves occupying all the valley, as well as the banks of the Tolaan winding among them, on its way to join the Mariqua.
The scent of pink mimosafilled the air, the blue sky shewed here and there a few feather traces of white cloud and the wind from the sea seemed the very breath of the southern spring.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mimosa" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
