oil-plant
any of several plants, as the castor-oil plant or sesame, the seeds of which yield an oil.
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How to use oil-plant in a sentence
In some inland districts beans of the castor oil plant, which grows in great abundance, are a lucrative article of trade.
This is, if I recollect right, the castor-oil plant, and here are some of the castor-oil beans which Master Tommy has been eating.
Masterman Ready | Captain Frederick MarryatThe castor-oil plant (Ricinus communis) grows wild, but it is also cultivated in many plantations.
Yet Forskal2118 gathered the caster-oil plant in the mountains of Arabia Felix, which may signify a wild station.
Origin of Cultivated Plants | Alphonse De CandolleThe castor-oil plant, he says, grows especially in Java, where it forms immense fields and produces a great quantity of oil.
Origin of Cultivated Plants | Alphonse De Candolle
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