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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. large shrub of tropical Africa and Asia having large palmate leaves and spiny capsules containing seeds that are the source of castor oil and ricin; widely naturalized throughout the tropics;
[syn: castor-oil plant, castor bean plant, palma christi, palma christ, Ricinus communis]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Palma Christi \Pal"ma Chris"ti\ [L., palm of Christ.] (Bot.) A plant (Ricinus communis) with ornamental peltate and palmately cleft foliage, growing as a woody perennial in the tropics, and cultivated as an herbaceous annual in temperate regions; -- called also castor-oil plant. [Sometimes corrupted into palmcrist.] [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Castor oil \Cas"tor oil\ (k[a^]s"t[~e]r oil`). A mild cathartic oil, expressed or extracted from the seeds of the Ricinus communis, or Palma Christi. When fresh the oil is inodorous and insipid. [1913 Webster] Castor-oil plant. Same as Palma Christi. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

castor-oil plant n 1: large shrub of tropical Africa and Asia having large palmate leaves and spiny capsules containing seeds that are the source of castor oil and ricin; widely naturalized throughout the tropics [syn: castor-oil plant, castor bean plant, palma christi, palma christ, Ricinus communis]