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

 croton oil /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 oil
      n : viscid acrid brownish-yellow oil from the seeds of Croton
          tiglium having a violent cathartic action