'Palmcrist' definitions:
Definition of 'Palmcrist'
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- Palmcrist \Palm"crist\, n. The palma Christi. (--Jonah iv. 6, margin, and Douay version, note.) [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'palmcrist'
From: GCIDE
- Palma Christi \Pal"ma Chris"ti\ [L., palm of Christ.] (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.] [1913 Webster]