an extremely toxic protein found in the castor bean and isolated as a white powder: it agglutinates red blood corpuscles
Origin of ricin
from Classical Latin ricinus, castor-oil plantricin
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ricin
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A poisonous protein extracted from the castor bean and used as a biochemical reagent.
Origin of ricin
German Ricin from New Latin Ricinus castor-oil plant genus from Latin ricinus sheep tick, castor-oil plant ( the plant being so called from the ticklike appearance of castor beans ) of unknown originTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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An extremely poisonous protein extracted from the castor bean. Ricin inhibits protein synthesis in cells, and is used as a biochemical reagent and in cancer research.
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