ricinus

Questions about ricinus

What does ricinus mean?

ricinus means "a genus of herb having only one known species: castor-oil plant".

How many syllables are in ricinus?

ricinus has 3 syllables and divides as ri-ci-nus under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for ricinus?

Close synonyms include genus Ricinus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ricinus a common word?

ricinus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.