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Croton : (noun)
1: grown in many varieties for their brightly colored foliage;
widely cultivated as a houseplant [syn: Codiaeum
variegatum]
2: tropical Asiatic shrub; source of croton oil [syn: Croton
tiglium]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Croton : \Cro"ton\ (kr?"t?n), n. [Gr. ????, prop., a tick, which
the seed of the croton resembles.] (Bot.)
A genus of euphorbiaceous plants belonging to tropical
countries.
Croton oil (Med.), a viscid, acrid, brownish yellow oil
obtained from the seeds of Croton Tiglium, a small tree
of the East Indies. It is a most powerful drastic
cathartic, and is used externally as a pustulant.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Croton, OH
Zip code(s): 43013
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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