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Definition: Castor-oil Plant |
Castor-oil PlantNoun1. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Castor-oil PlantSynonyms: castor bean plant (n), palma christ (n), palma christi (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Castor-oil Plant |
| English words defined with "castor-oil plant": castor bean ♦ genus Ricinus ♦ Palmic ♦ Radiate-veined, Ricinine, Ricinus. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "castor-oil plant": Ricinic, Ricinine, Ricinolein, Ricinus. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "castor-oil plant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "麻 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | kristpalme (castor bean). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | wonderboom (castor bean). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | risiini (castor bean). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | ricin (castor bean). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Rizinus (castor bean, castor oil plant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | ρίκινος ο κοινός (castor bean). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ricinusbokor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | ricino (castor bean, castor oil plant), palma Christi (castor bean). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | astor-oilcay antplay tartago (castor bean), ricino (castor bean, castor oil plant, palma christi, ricin), higuerilla (castor bean). (various references) ricin (castor bean). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Ricinus communis L.. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-l-l-n-o-o-p-r-s-t-t" | |
-3 letters: allocations, coaptations, pollinators, postcranial, rapscallion. | |
-4 letters: allocation, allocators, allopatric, allotropic, altiplanos, cartoonist, castration, coaptation, collations, contraltos, lactations, locational, oscillator, palliators, placations, pollinator, postcoital, prolactins, rotational, spallation, tractional. | |
-5 letters: acropolis, allantoic, allantois, allocator, altiplano, antipasto, antisolar, apostolic, atonalist, cantorial, cantraips, caparison, carillons, cilantros, cloistral, coattails, collation, collators, colonials, colorants, colostral, consortia, contrails, contralto, copatrons. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 73 74 6F 72 2D 6F 69 6C 50 6C 61 6E 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110011 01110100 01101111 01110010 00101101 01101111 01101001 01101100 00100000 01010000 01101100 01100001 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a s t o r - o i l   P l a n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0073 0074 006F 0072 002D 006F 0069 006C 0050 006C 0061 006E 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3767858681841581757825078678086 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Translations: Ancient 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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