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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A poisonous, ornamental, tropical African herb or tree (Ricinus communis) having palmately lobed leaves and unisexual flowers and yielding a seed oil of commercial and medicinal value.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. Same as Palma Christi.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. 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

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  1. shrub
  1. bush

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  1. palma christi
  2. oil-tree
  3. castor bean
  1. ricinus
  2. erunda
  3. ricin
  1. palme-crist
  2. castor oil
  3. caruncle
  1. genus ricinus
  2. palmic
  3. radiate-veined
  1. ricinine
  2. ricinoleic acid
  3. oilseed

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