Found 2 items, similar to croton.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: croton croton n 1: grown in many varieties for their brightly colored foliage; widely cultivated as a houseplant [syn: Codiaeum variegatum ] 2: tropical Asiatic shrub; source of croton oil [syn: Croton tiglium ]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Croton 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]