The Collaborative International Dictionary
palmcrist
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.]
Wiktionary
palmcrist
alt. (context obsolete English) ''Ricinus communis'', the castor oil plant. n. (context obsolete English) ''Ricinus communis'', the castor oil plant.