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oil-tree
Name for various trees and large shrubs which yield oil; as the Castor-oil plant (Ricinus communis), the Physic-nut tree (Curcas purgans or Jatropha Curcas), the Illupi (Bassia longifolia), and the Oil-palm (Elæis guineensis).
In Isa. xli. 19 a literal rendering of Heb. ﻋētz-shemen, prob. oleaster or wild olive (cf. 1 Kings vi. 23, Neh. viii. 15 R.V.).
1611Bible Isa. xli. 19, I will plant in the wildernes the Cedar, the Shittah tree, and the Myrtle, and the Oyle tree [Coverd. olyues]. 1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 321 Oil-tree, Ricinus. 1864Webster, Oil-tree,..an Indian tree of the genus Bassia. 1879H. N. Moseley Notes on ‘Challenger’ ii. 57 A very thick growth of oil-trees (Jatropha curcas). |