English dictionary
cyclamen
/'s/I/kl/@/m/@/n/
Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.
noun
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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 cyclamen purpurascensSource: WordNet 3.0
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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 <i>rabbits' ears</i>. It is also called <i>sow bread</i>, because hogs are said to eat the corms.
Source: webster1913