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sow•bread
(sou′bred′),USA pronunciation n.
- Plant Biologyany of several species of cyclamen, esp. Cyclamen hederifolium, a low-growing Old World plant having mottled leaves and pink or white flowers.
- 1540–50; sow2 + bread; so called because the roots are sought after by hogs