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Cyclamen

Cyclamen Meaning & Definition
Cyclamen Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Cyclamen?

[n] 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

Synonyms | Synonyms for Cyclamen: Cyclamen purpurascens

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See Also | flower | genus Cyclamen

Cyclamen In Webster's Dictionary

\Cyc"la*men\ (s?k"l?-m?n), n. [NL., fr. Gr. kykla`minos, kyklami`s.] (Bot.) 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 {rabbits' ears}. It is also called {sow bread}, because hogs are said to eat the corms.

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