Definition of croton Croton

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We found 9 definitions of croton from 6 different sources.

What does croton mean?

Noun Plural: crotons
croton - tropical Asiatic shrub; source of croton oil
		Croton tiglium
		shrub, bush a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
		genus croton tropical shrubs and herbs; source of croton oil
		croton oil viscid acrid brownish-yellow oil from the seeds of Croton tiglium having a violent cathartic action
croton - grown in many varieties for their brightly colored foliage; widely cultivated as a houseplant
		Codiaeum variegatum
		shrub, bush a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems

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croton (Noun)
Any of various plants, of the genus Croton, that yield croton oil .
croton (Noun)
A tropical evergreen shrub, , having glossy foliage, cultivated as a houseplant.
croton (Noun)
The main water supply pipe to a building or apartment, from the New Croton River , dams, reservoirs and aqueduct supplying New York City with water.

croton (n.)
A genus of euphorbiaceous plants belonging to tropical countries.

croton
krō′ton, n. a genus of tropical plants, producing a brownish-yellow oil, having a hot, biting taste.—ns. Crō′tonate, a salt formed by the union of crotonic acid with a base; Crō′ton-oil, a powerful purgative oil, expressed from the seeds of the Croton tiglium, also used externally.—Croton′ic acid, an acid obtained from croton-oil. [Gr. krotōn, a tick or mite, which the seed of the plant resembles.]

croton
One of the most celebrated of the Greek colonies in Southern Italy, founded about 710 B.C. About 510 a Crotoniat army of 100,000 men, under Milo, defeated a greatly superior force of Sybarites on the banks of the Tracis, took the city of Sybaris, and utterly destroyed it. (See SYBARIS.) In the second Punic war the Bruttians, with the assistance of the Carthaginian general Hanno, succeeded in making themselves masters of the city of Crotona, with the exception of the citadel, which held out until induced to surrender on terms. The ravages of this war completed the decay of the city, and it sunk into the condition of an obscure provincial town.

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