Word Meaning 蓖麻

ひま hima

蓖麻 is read as ひま (hima) and means castor oil plant.

Meaning

English

  1. castor oil plant

Reading

Kana

ひま

Romaji

hima

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 24 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

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Related Vocabulary

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蓖麻子

ひまし

castor bean

大麻

たいま

Shinto paper offerings

あさ

cannabis (Cannabis sativa)

胡麻

ごま

sesame (Sesamum indicum)

医療大麻

いりょうたいま

medical cannabis

切麻

きりぬさ

thinly cut hemp or paper mixed with rice (scattered as an offering to the gods)

製麻

せいま

flax (hemp) spinning

青麻

あおそ

ramie fibre (fiber)

乱麻

らんま

anarchy

麻薬

まやく

narcotic

麻布

あさぬの

hemp cloth

Example Sentences

5

にわにひまがいっぽんはえている。

There is a castor-oil plant growing in the yard.

ひまのたねからあぶらをとる。

Oil is extracted from the seeds of the castor-oil plant.

そのはたけではひまをそだてている。

They grow castor-oil plants in that field.

そふはむかし、ひまのはをかんさつした。

My grandfather once observed the leaves of a castor-oil plant.

みちばたにひまらしいしょくぶつがあった。

There was a plant by the roadside that looked like a castor-oil plant.