castor oil

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

[U] a thick yellow oil obtained from a tropical plant and used in the past as a type of medicine, usually as a LAXATIVE

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castor oilEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus castor oilEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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castor oil