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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 cro·ton /ˈkrotṇ/
 巴豆

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 cro·ton /ˈkrotṇ/ 名詞

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Cro·ton n.  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.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 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]