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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: 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, Cyclamen purpurascens]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: New Latin, genus name, from Greek kyklaminos Date: circa 1550 any of a genus (Cyclamen) of Old World plants of the primrose family having showy nodding flowers

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 any plant of the genus Cyclamen, originating in Europe, having pink, red, or white flowers with reflexed petals, often grown in pots. 2 the shade of colour of the red or pink cyclamen flower. Etymology: med.L f. Gk kuklaminos, perh. f. kuklos circle, with ref. to its bulbous roots

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(cyclamen) A cyclamen is a plant with white, pink, or red flowers. N-COUNT