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cyclamen [ˈsɪkləmən -ˌmɛn] n (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any Old World plant of the primulaceous genus Cyclamen, having nodding white, pink, or red flowers, with reflexed petals See also sowbread adj
(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Colours) of a dark reddish-purple colour [from Medieval Latin, from Latin cyclamīnos, from Greek kuklaminos, probably from kuklos circle, referring to the bulb-like roots] ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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| Cyclamen is the Rolls-Royce of cool-season flowers for the Valley. Outdoor plants, including mums, azaleas, gerbera daisies, cyclamen, and tulips, brought in for a short time also clean the air. Yet already he concludes, before the kaleidoscope of her expressions, before this face that from being all surface, smooth and waxed, passed to an almost fluid state of translucid gaiety, and from the chiselled polish of an opal to the feverish black-red congestion of a cyclamen, that the Name is an example of a barbarous society's primitivism, and as conventionally inadequate as "Homer" or "sea. |
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