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CYCLAMEN
cyclamen, Cyclamen purpurascens
(noun) Mediterranean plant widely cultivated as a houseplant for its showy dark green leaves splotched with silver and nodding white or pink to reddish flowers with reflexed petals
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
cyclamen (plural cyclamens)
Any of various flowering plants, of the genus Cyclamen, widely cultivated as a houseplant, having decorative leaves and solitary flowers.
Synonym: sowbread
Source: Wiktionary
Cyc"la*men (sk"l-mn), n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. kykla`minos, kyklami`s.] (Bot.)
Definition: A genus of plants of the Primrose family, having depressed rounded corms, and pretty nodding flowers with the petals so reflexed as to point upwards, whence it is called rabbit's ears. It is also called sow bread, because hogs are said to eat the corms.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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