'Cyclamen' definitions:
Definition of 'cyclamen'
(from WordNet)
noun
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]
Definition of 'Cyclamen'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]