castor oil

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Drugs, medicinescastor oilˌcastor ˈoil noun [uncountable] MDa thick oil made from the seeds of a plant and used in the past as a medicine to make the bowels emptyExamples from the Corpuscastor oil• Elsie and Edith Port were so alike that Jennie dosed the wrong one with her cure for all ailments - castor oil.• Similar research projects are developing plastics from materials such as corn, molasses, potato peelings and castor oil.• It seems to me that I wore glasses before I wore zinc and castor oil cream.• Caffeine enemas are given four hourly, as well as castor oil - orally or by enema - to aid detoxification.• Thatcher diktats do not simply slide down the Cabinet table like castor oil.• Madeleine said she didn't mind, but you could see his lordship was going down like a dose of castor oil.• The goods actually supplied consisted of copra cake combined with a quantity of castor oil, the latter being poisonous to cattle.• And that would get us back to castor oil and the secret police.Origin castor oil (1700-1800) Probably from castor “substance obtained from part of a beaver's body, used in medicines and perfumes” ((16-19 centuries)), from castor “beaver” ((14-19 centuries)), from Latin, from Greek kastor; because castor oil was once used instead of castor in medicines

单词	castor oil
释义	castor oil From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Drugs, medicinescastor oilˌcastor ˈoil noun [uncountable] MDa thick oil made from the seeds of a plant and used in the past as a medicine to make the bowels emptyExamples from the Corpuscastor oil• Elsie and Edith Port were so alike that Jennie dosed the wrong one with her cure for all ailments - castor oil.• Similar research projects are developing plastics from materials such as corn, molasses, potato peelings and castor oil.• It seems to me that I wore glasses before I wore zinc and castor oil cream.• Caffeine enemas are given four hourly, as well as castor oil - orally or by enema - to aid detoxification.• Thatcher diktats do not simply slide down the Cabinet table like castor oil.• Madeleine said she didn't mind, but you could see his lordship was going down like a dose of castor oil.• The goods actually supplied consisted of copra cake combined with a quantity of castor oil, the latter being poisonous to cattle.• And that would get us back to castor oil and the secret police.Origin castor oil (1700-1800) Probably from castor “substance obtained from part of a beaver's body, used in medicines and perfumes” ((16-19 centuries)), from castor “beaver” ((14-19 centuries)), from Latin, from Greek kastor; because castor oil was once used instead of castor in medicines
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