GENUS CYCLAMEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Cyclamen mean? 

• GENUS CYCLAMEN (noun)
  The noun GENUS CYCLAMEN has 1 sense:

1. genus of widely cultivated flowering Eurasian herbs with centrally depressed rounded tubers and rounded heart-shaped leaves

  Familiarity information: GENUS CYCLAMEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS CYCLAMEN (noun)

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Meaning:

Genus of widely cultivated flowering Eurasian herbs with centrally depressed rounded tubers and rounded heart-shaped leaves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Cyclamen" is a kind of...):

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "genus Cyclamen"):

cyclamen; Cyclamen purpurascens (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)

Cyclamen hederifolium; Cyclamen neopolitanum; sowbread (common wild European cyclamen with pink flowers)

Holonyms ("genus Cyclamen" is a member of...):

family Primulaceae; primrose family; Primulaceae (a dicotyledonous family of the order Primulales with a regular flower; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere)