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CYCLAMEN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
cyclamen; Cyclamen purpurascens
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cyclamen" is a kind of...):
flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)
Holonyms ("cyclamen" is a member of...):
genus Cyclamen (genus of widely cultivated flowering Eurasian herbs with centrally depressed rounded tubers and rounded heart-shaped leaves)