Associations to the word «Cyclamen»

Wiktionary

CYCLAMEN, noun. Any of various flowering plants, of the genus Cyclamen, widely cultivated as a houseplant, having decorative leaves and solitary flowers.
CYCLAMEN, proper noun. A taxonomic genus within the family Primulaceae   — the cyclamens.

Dictionary definition

CYCLAMEN, noun. 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.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats