Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or derived from plants of the genus Croton.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to, or derived from, a plant of the genus Croton, or from croton oil.
- adjective (Chem.) a white crystalline organic acid, C3H5.CO2H, of the ethylene, or acrylic acid series. It was so named because formerly supposed to exist in croton oil. Also, any acid metameric with crotonic acid proper.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
crotonic acid or its derivatives
Etymologies
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From croton oil
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