'Croton' definitions:
Definition of 'croton'
(from WordNet)
noun
Grown in many varieties for their brightly colored foliage; widely cultivated as a houseplant [syn: croton, Codiaeum variegatum]
noun
Tropical Asiatic shrub; source of croton oil [syn: croton, Croton tiglium]
Definition of 'Croton'
From: GCIDE
- 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]