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2 definitions found 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 1.6 [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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