dandelion

English

WOTD – 12 October 2007

A dandelion in flower

A seeding dandelion

Etymology

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, Portuguese dente-de-leão, Italian dente di leone, German Löwenzahn, Norwegian Bokmål løvetann, all descendants or loan translations of the Latin term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdæn.dɪ.laɪ.ən/
• IPA^(key): /ˈdæn.dʌː.laɪ.ən/

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Noun

dandelion (countable and uncountable, plural dandelions)

1. (countable) 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).
2. (countable) The flower head or fruiting head of the dandelion plant.
3. (uncountable) A yellow colour, like that of the flower.

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Hyponyms

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

Derived terms

Derived terms

• dandelion clock
• dandelion greens
• dandelion salad

• dandelion seeds
• dandelion wine
• dandelion yellow

Translations

plant, wild flower of the genus Taraxacum

• Amharic: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: هِنْدِبَاء f (hindibāʔ), طَرْخَشْقُون m (ṭarḵašqūn), مُرّ (ar) m (murr) (obsolete)
• Armenian: խատուտիկ (hy) (xatutik)
• Avar: хӏамагага (ḥʳamagaga)
• Azerbaijani: zəncirotu
• Bashkir: бәпембә (bəpembə)
• Basque: txikoria-belar, sorgin-belar, mando-belar
• Belarusian: адува́нчык m (aduvánčyk), дзьмуха́вец m (dzʹmuxávjec)
• Bhojpuri: दुधाल (dudhāl), दुदाल (dudāl), बारान (bārān)
• Bulgarian: глухарче n (gluharče)
• Catalan: dent de lleó (ca) f
• Chechen: баппа (bappa)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 蒲公英 (pou⁴ gung¹ jing¹)

  Mandarin: 蒲公英 (zh) (púgōngyīng)

• Czech: pampeliška (cs) f
• Danish: mælkebøtte (da) c, løvetand c
• Dargwa: къакъажужу (ɢaɢažužu)
• Dutch: paardenbloem (nl), leeuwentand (nl) m
• Esperanto: leondento (eo), leontodo
• Estonian: võilill (et)
• Faroese: hagasólja f, várhagasólja f, tyrilshattur m
• Finnish: voikukka (fi)
• French: pissenlit (fr), dent-de-lion (fr) m (Switzerland)
• Galician: dente-de-león m, mexacán m
• Georgian: ბაბუაწვერა (babuac̣vera)
• German: Löwenzahn (de) m, Hundeblume (de) f, Kuhblume f, (South German, regional) Seichblume f, Pusteblume (de) f,, Butterblume (de) f

  Alemannic German: Chrottepösche m (Zurich), Söiblueme f (Bern), Sunnewirbel (Schwyz), Loiezaa

• Greek: αγριοραδίκι n (agrioradíki)
• Hebrew: מרגנית (he) f (marganít), שינן (he) m (šinán), סביון (he) m (savyón)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: pitypang (hu), gyermekláncfű (hu)
• Icelandic: fífill (is) m
• Indonesian: bunga randa tapak
• Ingush: баппа (bappa)
• Irish: caisearbhán (ga) m
• Italian: soffione (it) m, dente di leone m
• Japanese: たんぽぽ (ja) (tampopo)
• Kazakh: бақбақ (baqbaq)
• Korean: 민들레 (ko) (mindeulle)
• Kumyk: елпинчек (yelpinçek)
• Kyrgyz: каакым (ky) (kaakım)
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• Latgalian: pīnine f
• Latin: taraxacum n
• Latvian: pienene f
• Lithuanian: kiaulpienė f
• Luxembourgish: Bettseechesch f, Pissblumm f
• Macedonian: глуварче n (gluvarče)
• Malay: dandelion
• Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: tohetaka, tohetake, tawao
• Mongolian: багваахай цэцэг (bagvaaxaj ceceg)
• Nogai: маьметекей (mämetekey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: løvetann (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: løvetann f

• Occitan: dent de leon f, pissalach (oc) m, gravèl m
• Old English: ǣġwyrt f
• Persian: قاصدک (fa) (qâsedak)
• Polish: mlecz (pl) m, podbiał m, dmuchawiec (pl) m
• Portuguese: dente-de-leão (pt) m
• Romanian: păpădie (ro) f
• Russian: одува́нчик (ru) m (oduvánčik)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: масла́чак m

  Roman: masláčak (sh) m

• Slovak: púpava (sk) f
• Slovene: regrat (sl) m
• Spanish: diente de león (es) m
• Swedish: maskros (sv) c
• Tajik: коқу (koqu)
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Tashelhit: ⵡⴰⵡⵊⴹⵎ m (wæwjḍəm), ⴰⵡⵊⴹⵉⵎ m (æwjḍim)
• Tatar: тузганак (tt) (tuzganaq)
• Telugu: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: แดนดี้ไลออน (daendêelaion)
• Turkish: karahindiba (tr)
• Turkmen: tozga
• Ukrainian: кульба́ба f (kulʹbába)
• Uyghur: مامكاپ (mamkap)
• Uzbek: qoqi (uz), qoqigul (uz), gulqoqi (uz), momaqaymoq (uz)
• Vietnamese: bồ công anh
• Volapük: (plant) tarak (vo), (flower) tarakaflor (vo)
• Walloon: såvaedje cécoreye (wa) f, dint-d'-liyon m, pixhelét m, salåde des tchamps (wa) f
• Welsh: dant y llew m

color of a dandelion flower, dandelion color, dandelion yellow

• Finnish: voikukankeltainen
• German: Löwenzahnfarbe f, Löwenzahngelb n
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• Volapük: tarakafloraköl, tarakaflorayelov

Adjective

dandelion (not comparable)

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

Translations

of a yellow colour

• Danish: mælkebøtte (da), løvetand
• Finnish: voikukankeltainen
• German: löwenzahnfarbig, löwenzahngelb n
• Hungarian: pitypangsárga
• Norwegian: løvetann (no)
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• Polish: żółty (pl)
• Slovene: rumen (sl) m, rumena f
• Volapük: tarakaflorakölik, tarakaflorayelovik

See also

• clock
• goatsbeard
• hawk's beard
• kok-saghyz
• oxtongue
• pissabed
• Taraxacum
• Appendix:Colors

Anagrams

• daldinone