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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The castor-oil plant.
  2. n. The poisonous seed of the castor-oil plant, from which castor oil is obtained.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. See bean.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The seed of the castor oil plant, Ricinus communis; used in the production of castor oil and of the poison ricin.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. (Bot.) The bean or seed of the castor-oil plant (Ricinus communis, or Palma Christi.)

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the toxic seed of the castor-oil plant; source of castor oil

Etymologies

  1. castor (oil) + bean. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  1. oilseed
  1. oil-rich seed

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  1. oilseed
  1. plurannual
  1. castor bean
  1. man's-motherwort
  1. ricin
  1. eri

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