1. 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
   "Palma christ grew wild along the roadside";
   - castor-oil plant, castor bean plant, palma christi, Ricinus communis

Type of: bush, shrub

Part of: genus Ricinus, Ricinus