noun the squirting cucumber. ·see under cucumber.
2. noli-me-tangere ·noun any plant of a genus of herbs (impatiens) having capsules which, if touched when ripe, discharge their seeds.
·see impatiens.
3. 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.