Nō'li-mē-tān'ge-re, n.
n. [Lat., touch me not.] 1. (Bot.) (a.) A plant of different genera, as the balsamine or impatiens, so named because, on being touched when ripe, it discharges its seeds from the capsule with considerable force. (b.) A species of Momordica or Ecballium, called the wild or squirting cucumber. (c.) A powerfully stinging species of nettles.
Sense 2. (Med.) An ulcerous cutaneous disease (Lupus exedens), exceedingly destructive, but painless. Wilson.
