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dandelion
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun dandelion has 1 sense
- dandelion(n = noun.plant) blowball - any of several herbs of the genus Taraxacum having long tap roots and deeply notched leaves and bright yellow flowers followed by fluffy seed balls; Array is a member of genus taraxacum, taraxacum
has particulars: common dandelion, taraxacum officinale, taraxacum ruderalia, kok-saghyz, kok-sagyz, russian dandelion, taraxacum kok-saghyz
is a kind of herb, herbaceous plant
OXFORD DICTIONARY
dandelion, n. a composite plant, Taraxacum officinale, with jagged leaves and a large bright-yellow flower on a hollow stalk, followed by a globular head of seeds with downy tufts.
Idiom
dandelion clock the downy seed-head of a dandelion. dandelion coffee dried and powdered dandelion roots; a drink made from this.
Etymology
F dent-de-lion transl. med.L dens leonis lion's tooth
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