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GENUS CROTON

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Tropical shrubs and herbs; source of croton oil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Croton" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "genus Croton"):

croton; Croton tiglium (tropical Asiatic shrub; source of croton oil)

cascarilla; Croton eluteria (West Indian shrub with aromatic bark)

Holonyms ("genus Croton" is a member of...):

Euphorbiaceae; family Euphorbiaceae; spurge family (a family of plants of order Geraniales)

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