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cyclamenAny of a group of perennial plants belonging to the primrose family, with heart-shaped leaves and petals that are twisted at the base and bent back, away from the centre of the downward-facing flower. The flowers are usually white or pink, and several species are cultivated. (Genus Cyclamen, family Primulaceae.) |
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Cyclamen is the Rolls-Royce of cool-season flowers for the Valley. Outdoor plants, including mums, azaleas, gerbera daisies, cyclamen, and tulips, brought in for a short time also clean the air. Yet already he concludes, before the kaleidoscope of her expressions, before this face that from being all surface, smooth and waxed, passed to an almost fluid state of translucid gaiety, and from the chiselled polish of an opal to the feverish black-red congestion of a cyclamen, that the Name is an example of a barbarous society's primitivism, and as conventionally inadequate as "Homer" or "sea. |
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