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Meaning of ricino

ricino: Purgrant castor-oil, triglyceride composed of essential amino acids, has moisturizing and laxative properties and is also used to treat hair loss and dandruff, in arthritis and in insect bites-fat substances and oils-It is extracted from a euphoriaceous plant native to Northern Africa, which bears the same name-; Name given to the oil that is extracted from the Higuerilla. It is also one of the common names of a shrubby plant of the Euphorbiaceae family, of oily seeds and which also receives the names of beaver, fig, fig, tartar or mosquito net. Its scientific name is Ricinus communis. Its seeds are toxic.; It is a vulgar name for the plant Ricinus communis.