Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - castor oil
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Castor oil
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Castor oil is a thick yellow oil that is obtained from the seeds of the castor oil plant. It has a very unpleasant taste and in former times was used as a medicine. N-UNCOUNT ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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noun Etymology: probably from its former use as a substitute for castoreum in medicine Date: 1746 a pale viscous fatty oil from castor beans used especially as a cathartic and as a lubricant and plasticizer ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. 1 an oil from the seeds of a plant, Ricinus communis, used as a purgative and lubricant. 2 (in full castor oil plant) this plant. Phrases and idioms castor oil bean (or castor bean) a seed of the castor oil plant. Etymology: 18th c.: orig. uncert.: perh. so called as having succeeded CASTOR(2) in the medical sense ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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