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- noun the
pale yellow vegetable oil extracted from thecastor bean ; used as alaxative and anindustrial lubricant - adjective Made of or relating to
castor oil .
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Examples
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Will update on that hospital visit – which made me, much to my embarassment, cry – later, after I have drunk my castor-oil martinis.
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I took Verna round to see him, and we found him in his yard pruning a castor-oil tree so as to let in the sunlight to a small, tired-looking begonia cutting.
Pilgrimage with La Virgen de Zapopan from "A House in the Sun" by Dane Chandos 2007
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I took Verna round to see him, and we found him in his yard pruning a castor-oil tree so as to let in the sunlight to a small, tired-looking begonia cutting.
Pilgrimage with La Virgen de Zapopan from "A House in the Sun" by Dane Chandos 2007
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I took Verna round to see him, and we found him in his yard pruning a castor-oil tree so as to let in the sunlight to a small, tired-looking begonia cutting.
Pilgrimage with La Virgen de Zapopan from "A House in the Sun" by Dane Chandos 2007
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I took Verna round to see him, and we found him in his yard pruning a castor-oil tree so as to let in the sunlight to a small, tired-looking begonia cutting.
Pilgrimage with La Virgen de Zapopan from "A House in the Sun" by Dane Chandos 2007
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Will update on that hospital visit - which made me, much to my embarassment, cry - later, after I have drunk my castor-oil martinis.
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Will update on that hospital visit - which made me, much to my embarassment, cry - later, after I have drunk my castor-oil martinis.
Archive 2008-05-04 2008
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Another natural defense—using a castor-oil mixture—has been touted by a poster in the Pest Patrol forum who says he hit on the idea after hearing that moles sometimes avoid fields where castor beans are planted.
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And there had always been a castor-oil element of the support for Clinton, a sense that you should take her because she would be good for you.
The End of Apathy 2008
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Another natural defense — using a castor-oil mixture — has been touted by a poster in the Pest Patrol forum who says he hit on the idea after hearing that moles sometimes avoid fields where castor beans are planted.
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