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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 petalsplay

  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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