croton
1. grown in many varieties for their brightly colored foliage; widely cultivated as a houseplant • Syn: Codiaeum variegatum • Hypernyms: shrub, bush • Member Holonyms: Codiaeum, genus Codiaeum 2. tropical Asiatic shrub; source of croton oil • Syn: Croton tiglium • Hypernyms: shrub, bush • Hyponyms: cascarilla, Croton eluteria • Member Holonyms: genus Croton • Substance Meronyms: croton oil
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