Translingual

Ricinus seeds

Ricinus bird louse

Proper noun

Ricinus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Euphorbiaceae – the castor plant.
2. A taxonomic genus within the family Ricinidae – several bird lice.

Hypernyms

• (genus in Euphorbiaceae): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, eurosids I, COM clade - clades; Malpighiales - order; Euphorbiaceae - family; Acalyphoideae - subfamily; Acalypheae - tribe
• (genus in Ricinidae): Insecta - class; Dicondylia - clade; Pterygota - subclass; Metapterygota - clade; Neoptera - infraclass; Eumetabola, Paraneoptera - clade; Psocodea - superorder; Phthiraptera - order; Amblycera - suborder; Ricinidae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus in Euphorbiaceae): Ricinus communis - sole accepted species

castor oil plant

• Castor oil plant on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ricinus (Euphorbiaceae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Ricinus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Ricinus at The Plant List

bird louse

• Louse on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ricinidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Amblycera on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Latin

Noun

ricinus m ‎(genitive ricinī); second declension

1. tick (arachnid)
2. castor, croton (a kind of plant)
3. mulberry seeds

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

• (castor):
  • Translingual: Ricinus
  • Catalan: ricí
  • English: ricin
  • French: ricin
  • Italian: ricina
  • Romanian: ricin
  • Spanish: ricino
• (tick):
  • Albanian: rriqër
  • Dalmatian: drecno
  • Spanish rezno

References

• ricinus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “ricinus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.