NOUN
- large shrub of tropical Africa and Asia having large palmate leaves and spiny capsules containing seeds that are the source of castor oil and ricin; widely naturalized throughout the tropics
How To Use castor bean plant In A Sentence
- A man in Orem, Utah had the Homeland Security flying squad at his house because he'd planted a castor bean plant on his front lawn, prompting a neighbor or passing snitch to decide he was making ricin: Boing Boing
- The tender Malabar spinach is still setting fleshy pink flowers, and the castor bean plant, towering, mesmerizing and deadly poisonous, displays its layers of purple leaves the size of a blacksmith's hand. In Washington, a frost on election day
