Dictionary entry

Cyclamen

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Cyc″la‐men (s?k″l?–m?n), n. [NL., fr. Gr. κυκλάμινοσ, κυκλαμίσ.] (Bot.) 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.