RICINUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ricinus mean? 

• RICINUS (noun)
  The noun RICINUS has 1 sense:

1. a genus of herb having only one known species: castor-oil plant

  Familiarity information: RICINUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RICINUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A genus of herb having only one known species: castor-oil plant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Ricinus; Ricinus

Hypernyms ("Ricinus" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Ricinus"):

castor-oil plant; castor bean plant; palma christ; palma christi; Ricinus communis (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)

Holonyms ("Ricinus" is a member of...):

Euphorbiaceae; family Euphorbiaceae; spurge family (a family of plants of order Geraniales)

 Context examples 

A vegetable oil pressed from the seeds of the castor bean, Ricinus communis.

(Castor Oil, NCI Thesaurus)