Ric"i*nus (), n. [L., the castor-oil plant.] Bot.

A genus of plants of the Spurge family, containing but one species (R. communis), the castor-oil plant. The fruit is three-celled, and contains three large seeds from which castor oil iss expressed. See Palma Christi.

 

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