cyclamen Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. 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
    Cyclamen purpurascens.

WordNet

Cyc"la*men noun
Etymology
NL., fr. Gr. kykla`minos, kyklami`s.
Definitions
  1. (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 rabbit's ears. It is also called sow bread, because hogs are said to eat the corms.

Webster 1913