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plural crotons
Any of various plants, of the genus Croton, that yield croton oil. examples
A tropical evergreen shrub, Codiaeum variegatum, having glossy foliage, cultivated as a houseplant. quotations examples
The croton bushes, by day hideous things like jaundiced laurels, were changed by the moon into jagged black and white designs like fantastic wood-cuts.
1934, George Orwell, chapter 15, in Burmese Days