Noun: dandelion
| Singular | dandelion |
| Plural | dandelions |
Sample Sentences
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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 [1910, Joseph Richardson Parke, The Wizard of the Damavant: A Tale of the Crusades, page 151:]
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There are asexual variants among all sorts of creatures, including jellyfish, dandelions, lichens and lizards. [2018 April 24, John Launer, “Do We Even Need Men?”, in Literary Hub:]
Nouns inflected like dandelion
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. 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.
2. 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. See: Latin Nouns '
dēns leōnis', Spanish Nouns '
diente de león', Portuguese Nouns '
dente-de-leão', Italian Nouns '
dente di leone', German Nouns '
Löwenzahn', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns '
løvetann'.
Verbs referencing "dandelion"
German Nouns
Löwenzahn.