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Webster 1913 Edition
Palma Christi
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Pal′ma Chris′ti
.[L., palm of Christ.]
(Bot.)
A plant (
Ricinus communis
) with ornamental peltate and palmately cleft foliage, growing as a woody perennial in the tropics, and cultivated as an herbaceous annual in temperate regions; – called also castor-oil plant
. [Sometimes corrupted into
palmcrist
.]