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What (who) is cyclamen - definition
GENUS OF PLANTS
Sow-bread; Shikuramen; Cyclamens; Cyclamen (flower); Cyclamen sp.; Sowbread
![Cyclamen persicum 'Stirling', a [[cultivar]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cyclamen 'Stirling'.jpg?width=200 "Cyclamen persicum 'Stirling', a [[cultivar]]")
cyclamen
['s?kl?m?n]
¦ noun (plural same or cyclamens) a plant of the primrose family, having pink, red, or white flowers with backward-curving petals. [Genus Cyclamen: several species.]
Origin
mod. L., from L. cyclaminos, from Gk kuklaminos, perh. from kuklos 'circle', with ref. to its bulbous roots.
cyclamen
(cyclamen)
A cyclamen is a plant with white, pink, or red flowers.
N-COUNT
Cyclamen
·noun 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.
Wikipedia
Cyclamen
Cyclamen (US: SY-klə-mən or UK: SIK-lə-mən) is a genus of 23 species of perennial flowering plants in the family Primulaceae. Cyclamen species are native to Europe and the Mediterranean Basin east to the Caucasus and Iran, with one species in Somalia. They grow from tubers and are valued for their flowers with upswept petals and variably patterned leaves.
It was traditionally classified in the family Primulaceae, was reclassified in the family Myrsinaceae in 2000 and finally, in 2009 with the introduction of the APG III system, was returned to the subfamily Myrsinoideae within the family Primulaceae.
Examples of use of cyclamen
1. In his main nursery, he showed us how he propagates cyclamen from seed.
2. The trade: Investigating the propagation and trade in snowdrops and cyclamen was the other aspect of our research.
3. One large bucket of seed, he told us, would turn into five truckloads of cyclamen in three years‘ time.
4. In spite of such initiatives, several snowdrops and cyclamen species are increasingly threatened with extinction and their natural habitats are at risk.
5. We were also surprised to come across medium–to large–scale propagation of a snowdrop species and cyclamen varieties yet to enter international trade.