Crossword-Solution: CURCAS
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Hint 1 meaning
The apparent arc described, above or below the horizon, by the
sun or other celestial body. The diurnal arc is described during the
daytime, the nocturnal arc during the night.
Hint 2 anagram
CRA
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AID WHEN GOING TO COURT
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Sentences with CURCAS (5)
They are scatters of shabby mat-huts, abandoned after every freeman's death; and they hardly emerge from the luxuriant undergrowth of manioc and banana, sensitive plant and physic nut (Jatropha Curcas), clustering round a palm here and there.
The oil obtained from the seeds of _Jatropha curcas_, a native of South America and Asia, is purgative and emetic, and analagous in its properties to croton oil.
The people are fond of planting before their doors the _felfa_, croton or physicnut (_Jatropha curcas_), whose oil so long lighted Lisbon.
CURCAS PURGANS.--A tropical plant cultivated in many warm countries for the sake of its seeds, known as physic nuts.
Physic nut (Bot.), a small tropical American euphorbiaceous tree (Jatropha Curcas), and its seeds, which are well flavored, but contain a drastic oil which renders them dangerous if eaten in large quantities.