Croton is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CROTON in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a tropical plant yielding an acrid oil used as a purgative
• a strong-scented tree, shrub, or herbaceous plant of the spurge family, native to tropical and warm regions. Several kinds yield timber and other commercially important products.
• a small evergreen tree or shrub of the Indo-Pacific region, which is grown for its colourful ornamental foliage.
• type of shrub or tree, the seeds of which yield croton oil
• A genus of euphorbiaceous plants belonging to tropical countries.
• grown in many varieties for their brightly colored foliage; widely cultivated as a houseplant
• tropical Asiatic shrub; source of croton oil

Words related to CROTON

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Words that contain CROTON

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How to use CROTON in a sentence

• A sadder sight to the tourist on the Hudson, but one which is of necessity full of interest, is the Sing Sing Prison, just below Croton Point.
• His Helen, painted from five of the most beautiful women of Croton, was one of the most renowned productions of antiquity, to see which the painter demanded money.
• Besides these the Surrentinians, and almost the whole coast possessed by the Greeks, the people of Tarentum, Metapontum, Croton, the Locrians, and all Cisalpine Gaul.
• Two rivers, called the Croton and the Mill river, wind through the place.
• So they left their second letter and card and drove off, continuing their ride till they reached the Croton water works, which they quitted the carriage to see and admire.
• It is situated on the Croton River, which is a tributary of the Hudson, about four miles below the present Croton dam.
• MAP OF CROTON AQUEDUCT This map is accurately copied from Mr.
• When matters had arrived at this stage the Italian consul-general in New York determined to go to Croton Landing and see if he could not arrange matters.
• On the corner above where the Union League now stands there was, in 1854, a small country tavern known as the Croton Cottage.
• It took its name from the Croton Reservoir, a block above, then on the other side of the Avenue.
• On the same side of the Avenue as the Croton Cottage, in the block between Forty-first and Forty-second Street, was the Rutgers Female Cottage.
• The distributing reservoir of the Croton Water system, it occupied more than four acres, and was divided into two basins by a partition wall.
• Croton and Sybaris were two ancient Greek cities situated on the Gulf of Tarentum, Southern Italy.
• RESERVOIR SQUARE occupies the site of the old Crystal Palace, and lies between Sixth avenue and the Croton Reservoir on Fifth avenue, and Fortieth and Forty-second streets.
• It is provided with every convenience, is supplied with the Croton water, and has accommodations for 400 patients.
• There were many plans for supplying the city of New York with fresh water, previous to the adoption of the Croton Aqueduct scheme, but we have not the space to present them here.
• The Croton River is one of the purest streams in the world.
• This advance induced the American general to quit his post on the Croton, and fall back upon the river Delaware.
• Then, if we are long in one place, so that a sick man comes a second time, swearing grievously because of episin, give croton.
• Driven or Tube Wells furnished to large consumers of Croton and Ridgewood Water.
• He had aspired to be a police justice, or city inspector, or commissioner of the Croton Board.
• A little paint, and a diligent application of broom and Croton water, had kept the block quite fresh and jaunty.
• The consul Sempronius gets the better of Hannibal in a battle near Croton.
• Hannibal, dispirited by this adverse battle, led his troops away to Croton.
• In 1845, eight cases of croton oil and six cases of the seed were exported from Ceylon.
• This oil seems fitted to compete in utility with the far more costly and less agreeable oil of the croton.
• No change in vegetation takes place, except the occurrence of a Croton, much like that of the Pagoda near Canowli.
• A year or so ago the Croton water, which is in use in New York City, was found to be impure.
• A commission was appointed to go and examine the Croton Water-Shed.

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