1) Cascarilla
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1) NY aqueduct 2) Bush 3) Codiaeum variegatum 4) Hudson River feeder 5) Shrub 6) Source of croton oil 7) Tropical Asiatic shrub
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[plant] Croton is an extensive flowering plant genus in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, established by Carl Linnaeus in 1737. The plants of this genus were described and introduced to Europeans by Georg Eberhard Rumphius. The common names for this genus are rushfoil and croton, but the latter also refers to Codiaeum variegatum. The generi...
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• (n.) A genus of euphorbiaceous plants belonging to tropical countries.
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(Codiaeum variegatum), colourful-leaved plant of the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae). Its numerous varieties of shrubs or small trees with brilliantly ... [2 related articles]
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(Joseph's Coat) A houseplant that is poisonous to cats if eaten, or contact is made with the sap. If chewed the mouth and skin around the mouth blister. If the plant is consumed it is much more serious and vomiting and diarrhoea can progress to muscular tremors and death.
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Greek town (now Crotone) on the east coast of Bruttium (now Calabria, Italy). It was founded by Achaeans 710 BC and quickly prospered because it had the only harbour between Tarentum (now Taranto)...
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Cro'ton noun [ Greek ............, prop., a tick, which the seed of the croton resembles.]
(Botany) A genus of euphorbiaceous plants belonging to tropical countries.
Croton oil (Medicine) ,
a viscid, acrid, brownish yellow oil obtained from the seeds of Croton Tiglium ,...
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Croton is a genus of herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees, of the natural order Euphorbiaceae, comprehending a great number of species, many of which possess important medical properties. The more remarkable species are Croton Cascarilla, a native of the West Indies and Florida, which yields the cascarilla bark, a valuable aromatic tonic; Croton la...
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archaic or obsolete terms > Places: Ancient city, S Italy, on the east coast of Bruttium (now Calabria), a colony of Magna Graecia founded c.708 BCE. It was called Cotrone from the Middle Ages until 1928, when its name was changed to Crotone.
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[n] - grown in many varieties for their brightly colored foliage 2. [n] - tropical Asiatic shrub
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noun tropical Asiatic shrub; source of croton oil
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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. · (among florists) any plant of the related genus Codiaeum (or Phyllaurea) cultivated for its ornamental foliage.
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