cyclamen

English - Turkish

Definition of cyclamen in English Turkish dictionary: siklamen; tavşankulağı; i., bot. siklamen, tavşankulağı, buhurumeryem, Cyclamen; {i} siklâmen; buhurumeryem çiçeği; buhurumeryem

English - English

Definition of cyclamen in English English dictionary: Any of various flowering plants, of the genus Cyclamen, widely cultivated as a houseplant, having decorative leaves and solitary flowers; {i} plant belonging to the primrose family; A cyclamen is a plant with white, pink, or red flowers. cyclamen a plant with pink, red, or white flowers. Any of about 15 species of flowering perennial herbaceous plants that make up the genus Cyclamen, in the primrose family (Primulaceae), native to the Middle East and southern and central Europe. The florist's cyclamen (C. persicum), the best-known species, is an indoor plant cultivated for its attractive white to pink to deep red flowers. Long-stalked, rounded, or kidney-shaped leaves, often variously marked, grow from the base of the plant, which has no aboveground stem. Solitary flowers grow on stalks less than 12 in. (30 cm) tall; 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; 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
cyclamens: plural of cyclamen
genus cyclamen: genus of widely cultivated flowering Eurasian herbs with centrally depressed rounded tubers and rounded heart-shaped leaves

cyclamen

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cyc·la·men

[ 'sI-kl&-m&n, 'si- ] (noun.) circa 1550. New Latin, genus name, from Greek kyklaminos.

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