castor
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5.5
- noun
- /ˈkæstər/
:
ricino
- The seeds of the castor plant are processed to extract the healing oil.
- castor oil
Examples
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Did your momma really give you castor oil?
Fiction book (1991) -
Patients with malaria among the railway workers were treated by Meitzner using a combination of castor oil and quinine and a diet that excluded meat (10).
Academic text (2012) -
Next, Castor oil is good for the eyes.
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But sometimes I also use castor oil.
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I applied a constant layer of Castor oil over one side of my face for an entire week.
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You know how mothers put the castor oil in with orange juice?
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I also got their Castor oil treatment for body hair and brows.
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And then you're just going to add the Castor oil on top.
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What about calomel or castor oil?
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So this is organic Castor oil and I like to use it on my brows and my lashes.
Synonyms
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8.6
A tall tropical plant with big leaves and spiny seed pods whose seeds make castor oil and are very poisonous
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9.9
A group of plants that includes the castor bean whose seeds make castor oil and are poisonous
A large tropical bush with wide leaves that has seeds used for castor oil and contains a poison called ricin
A large tropical shrub with big hand-shaped leaves and spiny seed pods that give seeds used to make castor oil
A large tropical shrub with palm-like leaves grown for seeds that make castor oil and are poisonous
Compounds
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3.4
A pale yellow oil from castor seeds that people use to treat constipation and to make paints and varnishes
A large tropical shrub with big hand-shaped leaves and spiny seed pods that give seeds used to make castor oil
- Specialized
A large beaver that lives in and near rivers in Europe and northern Asia
A large tropical bush with wide leaves that has seeds used for castor oil and contains a poison called ricin
Surface Forms
Etymology
A helpful way to remember the plant castor is that it shares the old name castor meaning 'beaver', because early medicines used both beaver products and the oil from this plant; so the plant that gives castor oil took the same name.