CYCLAMEN

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

cyclamen; Cyclamen purpurascens

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("cyclamen" is a kind of...):

flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)

Holonyms ("cyclamen" is a member of...):

genus Cyclamen (genus of widely cultivated flowering Eurasian herbs with centrally depressed rounded tubers and rounded heart-shaped leaves)

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