a European plant of the primrose family, having pink, red, or white flowers with backward-curving petals and widely grown as a winter-flowering pot plant 仙客来
Genus Cyclamen, family Primulaceae: several species 仙客来属,报春花科:数种 ■[mass noun]a pinkish-purple colour 仙客来粉紫色
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modern Latin, from Latin cyclaminos, from Greek kuklaminos, perhaps from kuklos 'circle', with reference to its bulbous roots