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CYCLAMEN PURPURASCENS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Cyclamen purpurascens mean?
• CYCLAMEN PURPURASCENS (noun)
The noun CYCLAMEN PURPURASCENS has 1 sense:
1. 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
Familiarity information: CYCLAMEN PURPURASCENS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CYCLAMEN PURPURASCENS (noun)
Sense 1
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
cyclamen; Cyclamen purpurascens
Hypernyms ("Cyclamen purpurascens" is a kind of...):
flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)
Holonyms ("Cyclamen purpurascens" 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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