sowbread
noun
: a common wild cyclamen (Cyclamen europeaum) of central Europe having leaves that are dark green spotted with white above and carmine or white flowers : a related European herb (Cyclamen neapolitanum) often cultivated for its showy rose or white flowers
Word History
Etymology
sow entry 1 + bread; from the fact that its rootstocks are eaten by swine
- by return of post
- by right
- by rights
- by sea
- by sight
- by some distance
- by some miracle
- by someone's reckoning
- by stealth
- by step
- by storm
- by the boatload
- by the book
- by the by
- by the bye
- by the count of
- by the day
- by the hand
- by the head
- by the heels
- by the name of
- by the numbers
- by the rules
- by the same token
- by the score