Cyclamen

Word CYCLAMEN
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Hyphenation cyc la men
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Definitions and meanings of "Cyclamen"

What do we mean by cyclamen?

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. 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. noun

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. noun

Any of various flowering plants, of the genus Cyclamen, widely cultivated as a houseplant, having decorative leaves and solitary flowers 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 noun

Any of various flowering plants, of the genus Cyclamen, widely cultivated as a houseplant, having decorative leaves and solitary flowers.

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The word "cyclamen" in example sentences

I've known for a long time, in a rather abstract way, that sowbread is the common name for cyclamen. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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."

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. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Pink: chardron; cyclamen; flesh/nude; fuchsia; glycine; petunia; pink (qua pink); rose (32); salmon; shell, and vieux rose/vieux rose saxe; ❋ Unknown (2009)

Inbetween the spaces of the silver are clusters of cyclamen pink and mauve feathers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the ivy which covers the remains of an old garden in the woods, a single pinky-purple flower of cyclamen is all that remains of a once vivid colony. ❋ Unknown (2011)

As he explained in an email, the source is "too often judged as odorless; I wished to reveal its perfume, which hesitates between notes of cyclamen or cold rose, orange tree blossom and mandarin." ❋ Lettie Teague (2011)

If cut flowers strike you as too ephemeral, perhaps you'd prefer giving a houseplant such as amaryllis, cyclamen, African violet, paper-white narcissus, orchid, Boston fern, florist hydrangea, hibiscus, crown of thorns Euphorbia milii or spider plant. ❋ Joel M. Lerner (2011)

Everything is beautifully organised, from the tomatoes above to the potted cyclamen below, with not a single weed nor a leaf out of place. ❋ Unknown (2012)

She was paddling along bare-legged, her miniskirt hitched up a few inches, something like a multihued crab with two pallid rear legs; her dress was marbled in bright green, orange, cyclamen and ultramarine blue. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2010)

Visitors to Chatsworth, and to the Duke's Irish home, Lismore Castle, include Evelyn Waugh, Hubert de Givenchy and Duncan Grant, though first up is Lucian Freud, enlisted to paint cyclamen on the wall of a Chatsworth bathroom, a task he never completes (he would greet Debo every morning with the words: "I've had a wonderful night taking out everything I did yesterday"). ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is a joy to visit – and give me ‘permission’ to have a couple of cyclamen in place for February. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The cyclamen photograph so beautifully, but cannot be put into the ground so I passed them by this time. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Further into the wood, growing through moss, are white cyclamen flowers – the first I've noticed here. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Hermann Obrist (1862-1927) wasknown among art nouveau circles as the inventor of the "whiplash"; a sinuous flourish of hairpin curves inspired by cyclamen stems that became a standard motifoffin-de-siècle design. ❋ Unknown (2010)

‘[Dom] do you want to go to [the party] tonight ‘ [yh] cyclamen I’ll go’ ❋ Trainer Rico (2018)

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