Croton Definition

krōtn
crotons
noun
crotons
Any of a large, mostly tropical genus (Croton) of shrubs, trees, and herbs of the spurge family: certain species yield croton oil and cascarilla, formerly used in medicine, and others are poisonous range weeds in the SW U.S.
Webster's New World
Any of a genus (Codiaeum) of shrubs of the spurge family, grown for their ornamental, leathery leaves.
Webster's New World
(New York City, historical) The main water supply pipe to a building or apartment.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • Codiaeum variegatum
  • Croton tiglium
pronoun
(dated) The water supply of New York City. [from 1840]
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Noun

Singular:
croton
Plural:
crotons

Origin of Croton

  • New Latin Croton genus name from Greek krotōn castor oil plant from krotōn tick, sheep tick (the seeds of the castor-oil plant having a ticklike appearance)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From the name New York City's water supply, the Croton Aqueduct, which supplied water from the Croton Reservoir in Croton-on-Hudson.

    From Wiktionary

Croton Sentence Examples

  • Even rood years after this period, the dog was highly esteemed in Egypt for its sagacity and other excellent qualities; for when Pythagoras, after his return from Egypt, founded a new sect in Greece, and at Croton in southern Italy, he taught, with the Egyptian philosophers, that at the death of the body the soul entered into that of various animals.

  • They sent competitors to the Olympic games (among them the famous Milo of Croton); and the physicians of Croton early in the 6th century (especially in the person of Democedes) were reputed the best in Greece; but politically they appear to have generally kept themselves separate.

  • In one campaign, in which he was joined by the Lucanians, he devastated the territories of Thurii, Croton and Locri.

  • A few medicated soaps are prepared for internal use, among which are croton soap and jalap soap, both gentler cathartics than the uncompounded medicinal principles.

  • One ship of Croton, however, fought at Salamis, though it is not recorded that Greece asked the Italiotes for help when it sent ambassadors to Gelon of Syracuse.

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