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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Palm·crist n. The palma Christi. (--Jonah iv. 6, margin, and Douay version, note.)
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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Pal·ma Chris·ti  Bot. 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 palmcrist.]
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