| ricinus | <botany> A genus of plants of the Spurge family, containing but one species (R. Communis), the castor-oil plant. The fruit is three-celled, and contains three large seeds from which castor oil iss expressed. See Palma Christi. Origin: L, the castor-oil plant. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| Ricinus communis agglutinin | <protein> Lectin (120 kD) from castor bean, with specificity similar to ricin, but much less toxic. (18 Nov 1997) |
| Ixodes ricinus | The castor bean tick, a Euroasian species that infests cattle, sheep, and wild animals, and transmits the virus of louping ill, the piroplasm Babesia divergens, the central European tick-borne encephalitis virus, and the Lyme disease bacterium. (05 Mar 2000) |
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