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1. (n.) cyclamen
any plant of the genus Cyclamen, of the primrose family, having nodding white, purple, or red flowers with reflexed petals.
Etymology: (1540–50; < NL, ML < Gk kyklámīnos bulbous plant, akin to kýklos circle; see cycle)
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1. (noun) cyclamen, Cyclamen purpurascens
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
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1. (noun) cyclamen
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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1. cyclamen
A plant genus of the family PRIMULACEAE that contains triterpenoid saponins.
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