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Croton

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Noun

1. codiaeum variegatum, croton

grown in many varieties for their brightly colored foliage; widely cultivated as a houseplant

2. croton, croton tiglium

tropical Asiatic shrub; source of croton oil

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Croton

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noun
1. 
any shrub or tree of the chiefly tropical euphorbiaceous genus Croton, esp C. tiglium, the seeds of which yield croton oil
2. 
any of various tropical plants of the related genus Codiaeum, esp C. variegatum pictum, a house plant with variegated foliage

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Croton

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noun
1. 
any of a large, mostly tropical genus (Croton) of shrubs, trees, and herbs of the spurge family: certain species yield croton oil and cascarilla, formerly used in medicine, and others are poisonous range weeds in the SW U.S.
2. 
any of a genus (Codiaeum) of shrubs of the spurge family, grown for their ornamental, leathery leaves

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Croton

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n.
1. Any of various plants of the genus Croton, which includes the sources of cascarilla bark and croton oil.
2. A closely related Old World tropical evergreen shrub (Codiaeum variegatum) widely cultivated as a houseplant for its glossy multicolored foliage.

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