Palmae - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: palmaeCastor bean
The bean or seed of the castor oil plant Ricinus communis or Palma Christi...
Castor oil
A mild cathartic oil expressed or extracted from the seeds of the Ricinus communis or Palma Christi When fresh the oil is inodorous and insipid...
Palma Christi
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...
Palmae
A natural family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs same as Palmaceae coextensive with the order Palmales...
Palmales
A natural family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs coextensive with the family Palmae the palms...
Palmcrist
The palma Christi Jonah iv 6 margin and Douay version note...
Palmic
Of pertaining to or derived from the castor oil plant Ricinus communis or Palma Christi and other species of the family Euphorbiaceae formerly used to designate an acid now called ricinoleic acid d 12 hydroxyoleic acid C18H34O3...
ricinoleic acid
An organic acid C18H34O3 obtained from the castor oil plant Ricinus communis or Palma Christi and other species of the family Euphorbiaceae chemicaly it is d 12 hydroxyoleic acid CH3CH25CHOHCH2CHCHCH27COOH Formerly called palmic acid...
VerbarRicinus
A genus of plants of the Spurge family containing but one species Ricinus communis the castor oil plant The fruit is three celled and contains three large seeds from which castor oil is expressed See Palma Christi...
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