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Definition of Castor-oil 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-oil Plant
Literary usage of Castor-oil plant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Druggist (1890)
"It was, fortunately, found that the castor-oil plant was able to resist this
obstacle, and in.its first season the plantation at Sor produced 300 kilos of ..."
2. Mosquitoes: How They Live; how They Carry Disease; how They are Classified by Leland Ossian Howard (1902)
"It consists in planting the castor-oil plant (Rici- nus communis), ... In cold
and temperate climates the castor-oil plant grows to a height of four or five ..."
3. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa ( Gray, Merritt Lyndon Fernald, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1908)
"L. castor-oil plant Flowers in racemose or panicled clusters, the fertile above,
... CASTOROIL PLANT."
4. Therapeutics, Materia Medica, and Pharmacy: Including the Special by Samuel Otway Lewis Potter (1909)
"... a local sedative and protective, as in neutralizing the effects of lime upon
the conjunctiva. The leaves of the castor-oil plant are used to promote the ..."
5. Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature by John McClintock, James Strong (1883)
"The castor-oil plant attains a considerable fize in one season ; and though in
Europe it is only known as an herb, in India it frequently may be seen, ..."
6. Bulletin by United States Weather Bureau (1905)
"(2) As to the exact relative quantities of carbonic acid exhaled, it was a little
more for the castor-oil plant in the dark than in the light, the contrary ..."
7. Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical by Victoria Institute (Great Britain) (1899)
"I was almost in hopes that he would have said something about the castor oil
plant having been regarded by many people as Jonah's gourd. ..."
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