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Webster 1913 Edition
Cyclamen
Cyc′la-men
(s?k′l?-m?n)
, Noun.
[NL., fr. Gr.
κυκλάμινος
, κυκλαμίς
.] (Bot.)
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
rabbits’ ears
. It is also called sow bread
, because hogs are said to eat the corms.