dandelion

A dandelion in flower

Meanings

Noun

Adjective

  • Of a yellow colour, like that of the flower.

Related

Narrower meaning words

  • Taraxacum albidum (species), a white-flowering Japanese dandelion.
  • Taraxacum californicum (species), the endangered California dandelion.
  • Taraxacum japonicum (species), Japanese dandelion. No ring of smallish, downward-turned leaves under the flowerhead.
  • Taraxacum kok-saghyz (species), Russian dandelion, which produces rubber.
  • Taraxacum laevigatum (species), red-seeded dandelion; achenes reddish brown and leaves deeply cut throughout length. Inner bracts' tips are hooded.
  • Taraxacum officinale (syn. Taraxacum officinale subsp. vulgare (subspecies)), common dandelion. Found in many forms.

Origin

  • From Middle English dentdelyon, from Old French dent de lion ("lion's tooth"), also in Late Latin. The term has since died out in French (except in Swiss French), 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 or loan translations of the Latin term.

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