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cro⋅ton

[kroht-n]

–noun

1.	any of numerous chiefly tropical plants constituting the genus Croton, of the spurge family, several species of which, as C. tiglium, have important medicinal properties.

2.	(among florists) any plant of the related genus Codiaeum (or Phyllaurea) cultivated for its ornamental foliage.

Origin:
1745–55; < NL < Gk krot

n a tick, also the castor-oil plant, which has berries likened to ticks

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cro·ton (krōt'n) Pronunciation Key
n.

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

[New Latin Croton, genus name, from Greek krotōn, castor oil plant.]

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croton
noun
1.	grown in many varieties for their brightly colored foliage; widely cultivated as a houseplant
2.	tropical Asiatic shrub; source of croton oil

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Croton-on-Hudson, NY (village, FIPS 19213)
Location: (41.204228, -73.886177)
Population (2000): 7,606 (2,859 housing units)
Area: 4.748732 sq mi (land), 6.062017 sq mi (water)

Croton, MI (township, FIPS 12318980)
Location: (43.421172, -85.632519)
Population (2000): 3,042 (1,696 housing units)
Area: 34.039803 sq mi (land), 2.321701 sq mi (water)

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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.