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palma christi
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun palma christi has 1 sense
- palma christi(n = noun.plant) castor bean plant, castor-oil plant, palma christ, ricinus communis - 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; Array has parts: castor bean
is a member of genus ricinus, ricinus
is a kind of bush, shrub
CIDE DICTIONARY
palma christi, [L., palm of Christ.].
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 . [1913 Webster]
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