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Definition of Castor bean plant
1. Noun. 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.
Terms within: Castor Bean
Group relationships: Genus Ricinus, Ricinus
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Castor Bean Plant
Literary usage of Castor bean plant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Putnam's Garden Handbook by Mae Savell Croy (1917)
"Castor-Oil Bean The castor bean plant is very desirable for making shade in sunny
... The use of the castor bean plant with cannas, caladium, scarlet sage, ..."
2. Natural History of Hawaii: Being an Account of the Hawaiian People, the by William Alanson Bryan (1915)
"The castor bean plant,25 cultivated in several places, has escaped and grows
everywhere as a roadside shrub, often fifteen to thirty feet in height, ..."
3. Outlines of Botany for the High School Laboratory and Classroom by Robert Greenleaf Leavitt, Charles Herbert Clark, Mrs. Sophia M'Ilvaine (Bledsoe) Herrick, Asa Gray (1901)
"growing point; a mode of protection quite perfectly represented, also, by the
Castor Bean plant (Fig. 16). In the Mullein, protection is assured both in the ..."
4. Southern California Quarterly by Los Angeles County Pioneers of Southern California, Historical Society of Southern California (1907)
"The castor bean plant had some faults of its own that did not commend it as an
agricultural stand by. It had a trick of volunteering its services when they ..."
5. Outlines of Botany for the High School Laboratory and Classroom: (based on by Robert Greenleaf Leavitt (1901)
"... by the Castor Bean plant (Fig. 16). In the Mullein, protection is assured both
in the growing J4. End of the stem, and two iias- cent leaves, in Coleus, ..."
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