Cyclamen
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- noun
- /ˈsaɪkləmən/
- Specialized
- He lifted the tender white cyclamen from his chest and handed it to her.
- pink Cyclamen
- Cyclamen flowers
Examples
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He didn't look at Chassi; his eyes were only for the delicate roots of the cyclamen as he loosened them from the packing dirt.
Fiction book (2000) -
Every spring, she eagerly awaited the arrival of cyclamen to fill her balcony with beautiful flowers.
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"He was Greek." "Very good, you planted a cyclamen," Andrew said, "Who was Greek?"
Fiction book (2000) -
Resting against a perfumed bed of cyclamen
Fiction book (1993) -
It's cyclamen.
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White cyclamen, pink vincas, that's the plan.
Fiction book (2000) -
In the field, the women would pick flowers, anemones, and cyclamens, and weave them into garlands for Sara's fair head.
Fiction book (1998) -
It's been an unusually warm winter by all accounts: now I am sitting behind the chemistry building, on an old red-painted wood chipper, among a grove of cypresses, gazing at a shady slope covered with cyclamen flowers.
Academic text (2010) -
The garden was vibrant with purple and white cyclamen blooming under the winter sun.
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In the corner of the room, a pot of cyclamen added a splash of color to the otherwise dull decor.
Compounds
- Specialized
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9.9
A wild European flower with pink blooms and ivy-shaped leaves that grows in woods
- Specialized
A small flowering plant often grown indoors with silver-marked leaves and downward pink, white, or red flowers
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word Cyclamen comes from the Greek kyklamenon, from kyklos meaning 'circle', because the plant grows from a round root under the ground. Think of cycle, the same root, to remember the small circular root that sends up the plant's pretty flowers.