1. 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
   - castor-oil plant, palma christi, palma christ, Ricinus communis

Derived forms: castor bean plants

Type of: bush, shrub

Part of: genus Ricinus, Ricinus

Encyclopedia: Castor bean plant

• dry vermouth
• dry walling
• dry wash
• dry-bulb thermometer
• dry-cleaned
• dry-eyed
• dry-gulching
• dry-rot
• dry-shod
• dry-stone wall
• dry-wood termite
• dryad
• Dryadella
• Dryas
• Dryas octopetala
• Dryden
• drydock
• dryer
• drygoods
• drying agent
• drying oil
• drying up
• dryland berry
• dryland blueberry
• dryly