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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 No·li-me-tan·ge·re n.
 1. Bot. (a) Any plant of a genus of herbs (Impatiens) having capsules which, if touched when ripe, discharge their seeds. -- See Impatiens. (b) The squirting cucumber. See under Cucumber.
 2. Med. A name formerly applied to several varieties of ulcerous cutaneous diseases, but now restricted to Lupus exedens, an ulcerative affection of the nose.