impatiens

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"I was so excited to see him, but when he cleaned out my impatiens, my adoration changed," said Ms. Simon, who is field director of the Urban Wildlife Program of the Humane Society of the United States.

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  1. noun Any of various plants of the genus Impatiens, which includes the jewelweed.

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  • Pansies, impatiens, and petunias flourished in the front beds. —  Death on the River Walk
  • "He threw the poisoned water into my impatiens," Viola said. —  Garwood, Julie - Buchanan 1 - Heartbreaker
  • Annuals to plant include beard tongue, salvia, petunia, jewelweed, jacobinia, impatiens, and firespike. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • "And look for bright colored plants like impatiens or black-eyed Susans." —  News from www.thesunchronicle.com
  • I get mildly annoyed when deer eat my impatiens, but I also plant ornamentals deer don't eat. —  theithacajournal.com -
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  1. Latin impatiēns, impatient (so called because the ripe pods burst open when touched); see impatient.
 

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