MIMOSA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mimosa mean? 

• MIMOSA (noun)
  The noun MIMOSA has 3 senses:

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

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

  Familiarity information: MIMOSA used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIMOSA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Evergreen Australasian tree having white or silvery bark and young leaves and yellow flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Acacia dealbata; mimosa; silver wattle

Hypernyms ("mimosa" is a kind of...):

wattle (any of various Australasian trees yielding slender poles suitable for wattle)

Holonyms ("mimosa" is a member of...):

genus Acacia (large genus of shrubs and trees and some woody vines of Central and South America, Africa, Australia and Polynesia: wattle; mimosa)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("mimosa" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mimosa"):

Mimosa sensitiva; sensitive plant (semi-climbing prickly evergreen shrub of tropical America having compound leaves sensitive to light and touch)

action plant; humble plant; live-and-die; Mimosa pudica; sensitive plant; shame plant; touch-me-not (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)

Holonyms ("mimosa" is a member of...):

genus Mimosa (genus of spiny woody shrubs or trees; named for their apparent imitation of animal sensitivity to light and heat and movement)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A mixed drink containing champagne and orange juice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

buck's fizz; mimosa

Hypernyms ("mimosa" is a kind of...):

mixed drink (made of two or more ingredients)

 Context examples 

A chemical originally isolated from a type of mimosa tree.

(Catechol, NCI Dictionary)