croton oil

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   viscid acrid brownish-yellow oil from the seeds of Croton tiglium having a violent cathartic action

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Questions about croton oil

What does croton oil mean?

croton oil means "viscid acrid brownish-yellow oil from the seeds of Croton tiglium having a violent cathartic action".

Is croton oil a common word?

croton oil 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.