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SOWBREAD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sowbread mean?
• SOWBREAD (noun)
The noun SOWBREAD has 1 sense:
1. common wild European cyclamen with pink flowers
Familiarity information: SOWBREAD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Common wild European cyclamen with pink flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Cyclamen hederifolium; Cyclamen neopolitanum; sowbread
Hypernyms ("sowbread" is a kind of...):
flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)
Holonyms ("sowbread" 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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