Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various plants of the genus Cyclamen, especially a Mediterranean species (C. persicum) widely cultivated as a houseplant, having decorative leaves and showy, variously colored flowers with reflexed petals.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small genus of bulbous primulaceous plants, natives of southern Europe and western Asia.
- noun [lowercase] A plant of the genus Cyclamen.
- noun Same as
cyclamin , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (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 calledsow bread , because hogs are said to eat the corms.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of various
flowering plants , of the genusCyclamen , widely cultivated as ahouseplant , having decorative leaves and solitary flowers
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- 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
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I've known for a long time, in a rather abstract way, that sowbread is the common name for cyclamen.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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I've known for a long time, in a rather abstract way, that sowbread is the common name for cyclamen.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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I've known for a long time, in a rather abstract way, that sowbread is the common name for cyclamen.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Winterrowd described their new book as "50 chapters about various plants that have been special to our long gardening life, such as cyclamen, agapanthus, tender rhododendrons, etc., and some rarer ones such as Xanthorrhoea quadrangulata, a single huge potted specimen of which we have owned for thirty years."
unknown title 2009
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Winterrowd described their new book as "50 chapters about various plants that have been special to our long gardening life, such as cyclamen, agapanthus, tender rhododendrons, etc., and some rarer ones such as Xanthorrhoea quadrangulata, a single huge potted specimen of which we have owned for thirty years."
unknown title 2009
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If you ever wanted to know how to check cyclamen for fungal growth, or what makes your parsnips fork so unattractively, then this gently pastoral series is just what you've been looking for.
Matt LeBlanc comedy Episodes shows what can go wrong in remaking telly 2011
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Pink: chardron; cyclamen; flesh/nude; fuchsia; glycine; petunia; pink (qua pink); rose (32); salmon; shell, and vieux rose/vieux rose saxe;
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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Inbetween the spaces of the silver are clusters of cyclamen pink and mauve feathers.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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Pink: chardron; cyclamen; flesh/nude; fuchsia; glycine; petunia; pink (qua pink); rose (32); salmon; shell, and vieux rose/vieux rose saxe;
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Inbetween the spaces of the silver are clusters of cyclamen pink and mauve feathers.
Further Pavlova 2009
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