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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
croton
    n 1: grown in many varieties for their brightly colored foliage;
         widely cultivated as a houseplant [syn: croton, Codiaeum
         variegatum]
    2: tropical Asiatic shrub; source of croton oil [syn: croton,
       Croton tiglium]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
   [1913 Webster]

   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.
      [1913 Webster]

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