cyclamen : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: cyclamen	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for cyclamen
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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 Synonym(s): cyclamen, Cyclamen purpurascens
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.