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What (who) is castor oil - definition
VEGETABLE OIL OBTAINED BY PRESSING THE SEEDS OF THE CASTOR PLANT, RICINUS COMMUNIS
Castor Oil; Caster oil; Castor-oil; E1503; Caster bean oil; Castor bean oil; Caster seed oil; Castor plant oil; ATC code A06AB05; ATCvet code QA06AB05; Castor seed oil; Purge (drug); Turkey red oil; Traditional medicinal uses of castor oil
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castor oil
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
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.
castor oil
¦ noun a pale yellow purgative oil obtained from the seeds of an African shrub (Ricinus communis).
Origin
C18: perh. so named because it succeeded castor2 in medicinal use.
Wikipedia
Castor oil
Castor oil is a vegetable oil pressed from castor beans. It is a colourless or pale yellow liquid with a distinct taste and odor. Its boiling point is 313 °C (595 °F) and its density is 0.961 g/cm3. It includes a mixture of triglycerides in which about 90% of fatty acids are ricinoleates. Oleic acid and linoleic acid are the other significant components.
Castor oil and its derivatives are used in the manufacturing of soaps, lubricants, hydraulic and brake fluids, paints, dyes, coatings, inks, cold-resistant plastics, waxes and polishes, nylon, and perfumes.
Examples of use of castor oil
1. The venture will use castor–oil plants to make fuel.
2. In his 1'8' autobiography, he said÷ "Whenever I got sick, my mother gave me castor oil.
3. "I have met three people today who will vote communist." She crosses herself, with a glint of castor oil in her eyes.
4. Evogene expects the production cost of biodiesel based on castor oil to be significantly lower than that of biodiesel based on edible plants.
5. Government weighs in, with all the slipper–and–castor–oil remedies of the nanny state, and many fear that parents are failing to pass a framework of values on to their children.