Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The castor-oil plant, Ricinus communis.

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  • If the youth of those days [the 1840s] happened to use in conversation words unknown to earlier generations such as fakt [fact], rezul'tat [result], erunda [nonsense], solidarnost' [solidarity; joint responsibility], the representatives of those earlier generations declared that Russian speech suffered no small loss from such an influx of highly vulgar words.

    languagehat.com: CHUKOVSKY ON CHANGE II. 2004

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