ricinus communis

Questions about ricinus communis

What does ricinus communis mean?

ricinus communis means "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".

What is another word for ricinus communis?

Close synonyms include castor-oil plant, castor bean plant, palma christi, palma christ. 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 communis a common word?

ricinus communis 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.