Crossword-Solution: CURCAS
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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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.