Castor bean: alternatives and connections

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Castor bean

The bean or seed of the castor-oil plant (Ricinus communis, or Palma Christi.)

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Oilseed 76% connected

Seed from which oil is expressed, as the castor bean; also, the plant yielding such seed. See Castor bean.

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Palma Christi 70% connected

A plant (Ricinus communis) with ornamental peltate and palmately cleft foliage, growing as a woody perennial in the tropics, and cultivated as an her…

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