Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Cyclamen"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cyclamen \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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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 [syn: {Cyclamen purpurascens}]
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