Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - dandelion
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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. Phrases and idioms 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 ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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одуванчик лекарственный (Taraxacum officinale) – blue dandelion – dwarf dandelion – fall dandelion – high dandelion – leafy-stemmed false dandelion – native dandelion – red-seeded dandelion – rough dandelion ...Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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(dandelions) A dandelion is a wild plant which has yellow flowers with lots of thin petals. When the petals of each flower drop off, a fluffy white ball of seeds grows. N-COUNT ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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~ n a wild plant with yellow flowers, and white balls of seeds that travel a long way in the air ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 15c., from M.Fr. dent de lion, lit. "lion's tooth" (from its toothed leaves), transl. of M.L. dens leonis. Other folk names, like tell-time refer to the custom of telling the time by blowing the white seed (the number of puffs required to blow them all off supposedly being the number of the hour), or to the plant's more authentic diuretic qualities, preserved in M.E. piss-a-bed and Fr. pissenlit. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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