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GENUS CYCLAMEN
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I. (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:
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)
