cyclamen
pronunciation
How to pronounce cyclamen in British English:
UK [ˈsɪkləmən]
How to pronounce cyclamen in American English:
US [ˈsaɪkləmən]
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- 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
Word Origin
- cyclamen (n.)
- 1550s, from Medieval Latin cyclamen, from Latin cyclaminos, from Greek kyklaminos, from kyklos "circle" (see cycle (n.)). So called in reference to the bulbous shape of the root.
Example
- 1. Cyclamen tubers , in growth or in flower .
- 2. Savage orchid , white peach , cyclamen , clove .
- 3. Investment co. , ltd. shaanxi cyclamen home .
- 4. Cyclamen , lily of the valley , jasmine , carnation , iris .
- 5. Cyclamen persicum was carried on with substract culture testing by using of different complex substrate .