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Definition of Sowbread
1. Noun. Common wild European cyclamen with pink flowers.
Generic synonyms: Flower
Group relationships: Genus Cyclamen
Definition of Sowbread
1. a flowering plant [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sowbread
Literary usage of Sowbread
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulbs and Tuberous-rooted Plants: Their History, Description, Methods of by Charles Linnaeus Allen (1893)
"The origin of one common name, sowbread, is so old that it is past finding out.
Pliny said the roots poisoned swine, whence the name ..."
2. Bulbs and Tuberous-rooted Plants: Their History, Description, Methods of by Charles Linnaeus Allen (1912)
"The origin of one common name, sowbread, is so old that it is past finding out.
Pliny said the roots poisoned swine, whence the name ..."
3. Bulbs and Tuberous-rooted Plants: Their History, Description, Methods of by Charles Linnaeus Allen (1905)
"The origin of one common name, sowbread, is so old that it is past finding out.
Pliny said the roots poisoned swine, whence the name ..."
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