cyclamen

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

cyclamen
    n 1: 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 [syn: {cyclamen}, {Cyclamen purpurascens}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Cyclamen \Cyc"la*men\ (s?k"l?-m?n), n. [NL., fr. Gr.
   kykla`minos, kyklami`s.] (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.
   [1913 Webster]