Noli-me-tangere

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The squirting cucumber. ·see under Cucumber.

II. Noli-me-tangere ·noun Any plant of a genus of herbs (Impatiens) having capsules which, if touched when ripe, discharge their seeds.

— ·see Impatiens.

III. Noli-me-tangere ·noun A name formerly applied to several varieties of ulcerous cutaneous diseases, but now restricted to Lupus exedens, an ulcerative affection of the nose.

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