"castor bean" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: castor beans [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} castor bean (plural castor beans)
  1. A castor oil plant, of species Ricinus communis. Categories (lifeform): Spurges
    Sense id: en-castor_bean-en-noun-RVY7cn~6 Disambiguation of Spurges: 73 27 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Kikuyu translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Meru translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Punjabi translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 57 43 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 65 35 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 59 41 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 67 33 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 72 28 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 74 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 74 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 77 23 Disambiguation of Terms with Kikuyu translations: 73 27 Disambiguation of Terms with Macedonian translations: 74 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 70 30 Disambiguation of Terms with Meru translations: 74 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 72 28 Disambiguation of Terms with Punjabi translations: 74 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 78 22
  2. Seed of the castor oil plant, used in the production of castor oil and of the poison ricin.
    Sense id: en-castor_bean-en-noun-iwl-oaBi
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: castor bean tick (taxonomic: Ixodes ricinus) Translations (seed of the castor oil plant): الخروع (Arabic), рици́ново се́ме (ricínovo séme) [neuter] (Bulgarian), 蓖麻子 (bìmázǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), risiinipapu (Finnish), 蓖麻子 (himashi) (alt: ひまし) (Japanese), mbarĩki (Kikuyu), рицинус (ricinus) [masculine] (Macedonian), mbarĩki (Meru), nasiono rącznika pospolitego [neuter] (Polish), ਹਰਨੌਲ਼ੀ (harnauḷī) [feminine] (Punjabi), semilla de ricino [masculine] (Spanish)
Disambiguation of 'seed of the castor oil plant': 48 52

Inflected forms

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