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  • noun Plural form of cyclamen.

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Examples

  • Many plants we cultivate in England here grow wild in profusion, such as cyclamens, gum-cistus, both white and purple, many rare and beautiful orchideæ, the large flowering Spanish broom, perfuming the air all around, the tall, white-blossomed Mediterranean heath, and the myrtle.

    Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville Mary Somerville 1826

  • While all this discussion was going on, a new letter and new photographs popped into the Guardian's letters editor's inbox: Robert Harrison and his son, having seen the article, had taken the matter into their own hands, gone down to Wadhurst and tidied up the grave on their own initiative: cut the grass, planted cyclamens, and cleaned the gravestone so that its inscription is once more visible.

    Maurice Tate: An extraordinary response for an extraordinary man Stephen Bates 2010

  • They picked wild anemones, tulips, narcissus, and cyclamens before returning home.

    A Country Called AMREEKA Alia Malek 2009

  • They picked wild anemones, tulips, narcissus, and cyclamens before returning home.

    A Country Called AMREEKA Alia Malek 2009

  • They picked wild anemones, tulips, narcissus, and cyclamens before returning home.

    A Country Called AMREEKA Alia Malek 2009

  • Several years ago she and her family had dinner with us and bought us a couple of little hardy cyclamens in pots.

    51 entries from August 2007 2007

  • It's a simple and unfussy holiday that has the scent of moist soil and earth warms and the hint of cyclamens in the air.

    Happy Tu BiShvat! Ayala Sender 2009

  • It's a simple and unfussy holiday that has the scent of moist soil and earth warms and the hint of cyclamens in the air.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Ayala Sender 2009

  • Several years ago she and her family had dinner with us and bought us a couple of little hardy cyclamens in pots.

    Flowers for a friend 2007

  • Several years ago she and her family had dinner with us and bought us a couple of little hardy cyclamens in pots.

    Flowers for a friend 2007

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