croton

Other forms of croton

plural

crotons·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about croton

What does croton mean?

croton means "grown in many varieties for their brightly colored foliage; widely cultivated as a houseplant". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in croton?

croton has 2 syllables: cro-ton. The stress falls on "cro".

What is another word for croton?

Close synonyms include Codiaeum variegatum, Croton tiglium. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is croton a common word?

croton is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.