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Palma christi

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any castor oil plant of species Ricinus communis. uncountable

    "[…] but if you finde that their encrease and continuance multiply with your labour, it shall be then good for you to plant in diuers places of your Garden the hearbe called Palma Christi, in other places Garlicke and in other places Onyons, and it is an assured rule that no Moale will come néere where they grow for the strength and violence of their smell, is poysonous and deadly to those blinde vermines."

  2. 2
    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 wordnet

Etymology

From Latin palma Christi, “palm of Christ.”

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