cyclamen(n = noun.plant) cyclamen purpurascens - 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;
is a kind of flower
is a member of genus cyclamen
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
cyclamen, n.
1 any plant of the genus Cyclamen, originating in Europe, having pink, red, or white flowers with reflexed petals, often grown in pots.
2 the shade of colour of the red or pink cyclamen flower.
Etymology:
med.L f. Gk kuklaminos, perh. f. kuklos circle, with ref. to its bulbous roots
cyclamen hederifolium, cyclamen neopolitanum, cyclamen purpurascens, genus cyclamen