- 1. 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. Source: opted
- 2. 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 Source: wordnet
- 3. 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.] Source: webster
- 4. A plant (Ricinus communis) with ornamental peltate andpalmately 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.] Source: adambom
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