"Leontodon" is a word in ENGLISH
A genus of liguliflorous composite plants, including the
fall dandelion (L. autumnale), and formerly the true dandelion; --
called also lion's tooth.
Vanity, right?" Nash reappeared in the living room with an open bag of potato chips. "I nominate my venerable brother. He likes to play hero, and one look at him should establish the vanity angle.""Nash!" I really shouldn't have been surprised by the dig. But I was."What?" He raised one brow at me in challenge. "It's okay to call me jealous, but not to call him vain?""Awareness of one's obvious advantages doesn't imply vanity," Tod insisted calmly.Nash turned on him. "Does it imply narcissism?"Tod huffed. "This coming from the guy who owns more hair products than his girlfriend.
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A feathery crown of seed; egret; as, the aigrette or down of the dandelion or the thistle.
Read the complete definitionThe downy seed head of a dandelion, which children delight to blow away.
Read the complete definitionA thick head of flowers on a very short axis, as a clover top, or a dandelion; a composite flower. …
Read the complete definitionA large family of dicotyledonous plants, having their flowers arranged in dense heads of many small florets and their anthers …
Read the complete definitionBelonging to the order Compositae; bearing involucrate heads of many small florets, as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion.
Read the complete definitionA well-known plant of the genus Taraxacum (T. officinale, formerly called T. Dens-leonis and Leontodos Taraxacum) bearing large, yellow, compound …
Read the complete definitionA decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic …
Read the complete definitionA little flower; one of the numerous little flowers which compose the head or anthodium in such flowers as the …
Read the complete definitionThe fall dandelion (Leontodon autumnale).
Read the complete definitionBearing only ligulate flowers; -- said of a large suborder of composite plants, such as the dandelion, lettuce, hawkweed, etc.
Read the complete definitionThe hairy or feathery appendage of the achenes of thistles, dandelions, and most other plants of the order Compositae; also, …
Read the complete definitionA name locally applied to various wild plants, as dandelion, bluet, oxeye daisy, etc.
Read the complete definitionProceeding from a rootlike stem, or one which does not rise above the ground; as, the radical leaves of the …
Read the complete definitionPinnately cut with the lobes pointing downwards, as the leaf of the dandelion.
Read the complete definitionHaving all the florets ligulate, as in the dandelion.
Read the complete definitionA plant used or cultivated for food for man or domestic animals, as the cabbage, turnip, potato, bean, dandelion, etc.; …
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