Dandelion definition
A brilliant to vivid yellow.
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Any of various perennial plants of the genus Taraxacum of the composite family, having many-rayed yellow flower heads and deeply notched basal leaves, especially T. officinale, native to Eurasia and naturalized as a weed in North America, having edible leaves and flower heads that can be used to make wine.
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Any of several plants (genus Taraxacum) of the composite family, common weeds with yellow flowers and jagged leaves often used as greens.
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The definition of a dandelion is a weed from the daisy family with yellow flowers.
A weed with bright yellow flowers that turn into white tufts that children blow into the wind and make a wish upon is an example of a dandelion.
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Taraxacum officinale (syn. Taraxacum officinale subsp. vulgare), common dandelion. Found in many forms.
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dandelionsOrigin of dandelion
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From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From French dent-de-lion (“lion's tooth”), also in Late Latin dēns leōnis. The term has since died out in French (except in Swiss French), but compare Spanish diente de león, Italian dente di leone, Norwegian løvetann, Portuguese dente-de-leão, and also German Löwenzahn, all having the same literal meaning.
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