Usually means: Tropical plant with colorful leaves.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word croton:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. Croton, croton: Merriam-Webster
  2. Croton, croton: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. croton: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. croton: Collins English Dictionary
  5. croton: Vocabulary.com
  6. Croton, croton: Wordnik
  7. croton: Wiktionary
  8. croton: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. croton: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. croton: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. croton: Dictionary.com
  12. Croton (disambiguation), Croton (plant), Croton: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Croton: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. croton: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. croton: Rhymezone
  16. Croton: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. croton: FreeDictionary.org
  18. croton: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. croton: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. croton: Dictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. croton: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. croton: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Croton (genus), Croton: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Croton: Botanical Name listing of Plants
  2. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. croton: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See crotons as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Croton)

noun:  Any of various plants, of the genus Croton, that yield croton oil.
noun:  A tropical evergreen shrub, Codiaeum variegatum, having glossy foliage, cultivated as a houseplant.
noun:  (with the) A river in southern New York.
noun:  (with the, dated) The water supply of New York City.
noun:  (classical history) Crotone
noun:  Short for Croton-on-Hudson (“a village in southern New York located along the Croton and Hudson rivers”).

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