palmcrist

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palmcrist - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Palmcrist \Palm"crist\, n.
     The palma Christi. (--Jonah iv. 6, margin, and Douay version,
     note.)
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  Palma Christi \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.]
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