dandelion
nounEtymology
From Middle English dentdelyon, from Old French dent de lion (“lion's tooth”), also in Latin dēns leōnis, referring to the jagged shape of the plant's leaves. The term is now rare in French (together with liondent, calque from Germanic), but compare Spanish diente de león, Portuguese dente-de-leão, Italian dente di leone, German Löwenzahn, Norwegian Bokmål løvetann, Welsh dant y llew, all descendants, calques, or loan translations of the Latin term. First attested in the late 14th c. Displaced various words, including native Old English ǣġwyrt, native Middle English houndes-tooth, and English tell-time and swine's snout; and mostly displaced English cankerwort, monk's head, and pissabed.
- derived from dēns leōnis
- inherited from dentdelyon
Definitions
Any of the several species of plant in the genus Taraxacum, characterised by yellow…
Any of the several species of plant in the genus Taraxacum, characterised by yellow flower heads and notched, broad-ended leaves, especially the common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale).
- the sanguine hue of the poppy and the hibiscus, the gold of the daisy and dandelion, the dark green of the sorrage on either side, and the blue and purple of the blossoming mulberry and sycamore
- There are asexual variants among all sorts of creatures, including jellyfish, dandelions, lichens and lizards.
The flower head or fruiting head of the dandelion plant.
A yellow colour, like that of the flower.
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Of a yellow colour, like that of the flower.
The neighborhood
- neighborTaraxacum albidum
- neighbora white-flowering Japanese dandelion
- neighborTaraxacum californicum
- neighborthe endangered California dandelion
- neighborTaraxacum japonicum
- neighborJapanese dandelion. No ring of smallish
- neighbordownward-turned leaves under the flowerhead
- neighborTaraxacum kok-saghyz
- neighborRussian dandelion
- neighborwhich produces rubber
- neighborTaraxacum erythrospermum
- neighboroften considered a variety of Taraxacum laevigatum
Derived
blue dandelion, Bolander's mock dandelion, dandelion and burdock, dandelion clock, dandelion coffee, dandelion greens, dandelionlike, dandelion salad, dandelion seed, dandelion tea, dandelion wine, dandelion yellow, desert dandelion, dwarf dandelion, fall dandelion, false dandelion, Italian dandelion, Kazakh dandelion, Russian dandelion
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA