Word Meanings - CASTORBEAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The bean or seed of the castor-oil plant (Ricinus communis, or Palma Christi.)

• CHRISTIANSCIENTIST
  A believer in Christian Science; one who practices its teachings.
• Christianize
  To make Christian; to convert to Christianity; as, to Christianize pagans.
• Palmately
  In a palmate manner.
• Plantership
  The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.
• CHRISTIANSENECA
  Joseph Hall (1574 -- 1656), Bishop of Norwich, a divine eminent as a moralist.
• Christianlike
  Becoming to a Christian.
• Palmatifid
  Palmate, with the divisions separated but little more than halfway to the common center.
• Planticle
  A young plant, or plant in embryo.
• CHRISTIANSOCIALISM
  Any theory or system that aims to combine the teachings of Christ with the teachings of socialism in their applications to life; Christianized socialism; esp., the principles of this nature advocated by F. D. Maurice, Charles Kingsley, and others in Eng
• Christianly
  In a manner becoming the principles of the Christian religion.
• Palmatilobed
  Palmate, with the divisions separated less than halfway to the common center.
• Plantigrada
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• PALMACHRISTI
  A plant (Ricinus communis) with ornamental peltate and palmately cleft foliage, growing as a woody perennial in the tropics, and cultivated as an herbaceous annual in temperate regions; -- called also castor-oil plant. [Sometimes corrupted into palmcris
• Castorite
  A variety of the mineral called petalite, from Elba.
• Christianness
  Consonance with the doctrines of Christianity.
• Palmatisect
  Alt. of Palmatisected
• Plantigrade
  Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades.
• PALMATEPALMATED
  Spreading from the apex of a petiole, as the divisions of a leaf, or leaflets, so as to resemble the hand with outspread fingers. Gray. 3. (Zoöl.) (a) Having the anterior toes united by a web, as in most swimming birds; webbed. See Illust. (i) under

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