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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dandelion
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dandelion clock
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
clock
▪ This is similar to the way the down on a dandelion clock seed increases drag.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At the moment it looks more like a bit of rough pasture ... full of dandelions and clover patches.
▪ For a start, try leaves of lime, poplar, sycamore, holly, dandelion and groundsel.
▪ It seems, like the dandelions in spring, to be the natural order of things.
▪ The melody suggests innocence, butterflies, dandelions bobbing in the breeze.
▪ Today that team breaks up and scatters to the winds like a dandelion.
▪ Transfer to a serving bowl or to individual salad plates and garnish with dandelion, arugula or lettuce.
▪ Weeds are rampant everywhere, dandelions, nettles, dock leaves, rose-bay willow-herb, wild roses, brambles.
▪ Yes, curlier even than Derek Johnstone's big dandelion noggin.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dandelion

Dandelion \Dan"de*li`on\, n. [F. dent de lion lion's tooth, fr. L. dens tooth + leo lion. See Tooth, n., and Lion.] (Bot.) A well-known plant of the genus Taraxacum ( Taraxacum officinale, formerly called Taraxacum Dens-leonis and Leontodos Taraxacum) bearing large, yellow, compound flowers, and deeply notched leaves.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dandelion

early 15c., earlier dent-de-lioun (late 14c.), from Middle French dent de lion, literally "lion's tooth" (from its toothed leaves), translation of Medieval Latin 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 Middle English piss-a-bed and French pissenlit.

Wiktionary
dandelion

a. Of a yellow colour, like that of the flower. n. 1 (context countable English) Any of the several species of plant in the genus ''Taraxacum'', characterised yellow flower heads and notched, broad-ended leaf, especially the common dandelion (''Taraxacum officinale''). 2 (context countable English) The flower head or fruiting head of the dandelion plant. 3 (context uncountable English) A yellow colour, like that of the flower.

WordNet
dandelion

n. 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 [syn: blowball]

Wikipedia
Dandelion (2004 film)

Dandelion is a 2004 film directed and co-written by Mark Milgard (son of Milgard Windows founder and philanthropist Gary Milgard) and stars Vincent Kartheiser (as Mason Mullich), Blake Heron (as Eddie), Taryn Manning (as Danny Voss), Arliss Howard (as Luke Mullich), and Mare Winningham (as Layla Mullich). The director of photography was Tim Orr.

Dandelion (American band)

Dandelion was a grunge band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania formed in 1989 by vocalist/guitarist Kevin Morpurgo, bassist Mike Morpurgo, guitarist Carl Hinds, and drummer Dante Cimino. Bayen Butler was also a member in 1993-94.

Dandelion (disambiguation)

Dandelion may refer to:

  • Taraxacum, a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae
    • Taraxacum officinale, the common dandelion
  • False dandelion, a number of plants similar to dandelions
  • Dandelion and burdock, a popular British soft drink
  • Dandelion (2004 film), a 2004 motion picture
  • Dandelion (2014 film)

Literature

  • Dandelion (magazine), a literary journal started by Joan Clark
  • Dandelion (Watership Down), a fictional rabbit in the novel Watership Down

Music

  • Dandelion (American band), a Philadelphia-based grunge band
  • Dandelion (French band), a French psychedelic folk band
  • "Dandelion" (song), a song by The Rolling Stones
  • "Dandelion", a song by Tracy Bonham from her 1995 EP Liverpool Sessions
  • "Dandelion", a song by Audioslave from Out of Exile
  • "Dandelion", a song by Rip Slyme
  • "Dandelion", a song by Kacey Musgraves from Same Trailer Different Park
  • Dandelion Records, a record label in the United Kingdom

Technology

  • Dandelion, code name for one of the Xerox Star series of workstations
  • Dandelion chip, enables metering and focus indication for older lenses on certain types of camera bodies
Dandelion (album)

Dandelion is the first album by French psychedelic folk band Dandelion.

Released as a private pressing of only 300 copies by Le Kiosque D'Orphée in 1979, the album was sold locally in their gigs. It was recorded on the Cultural Center of Giromagny in five days (26/08/79 - 01/09/79) with just a couple of two track tape recorders and a minimal budget. The album was all sung in English except for track number 3 "La Farfalla" sang in Italian by Sophie Pfister. The album cover was made by Sophie's sister Anne.

The re-issue label, Guerseen, released the album on CD in 2007.

Dandelion (2014 film)

Dandelion is a 2014 Vietnamese romantic comedy film directed by Nguyễn Quang Huy, starring Sơn Tùng M-TP, Hari Won, Phạm Quỳnh Anh, Ngô Kiến Huy, Hứa Vĩ Văn. The film's screenplay is based on the book Bắt đầu từ một kết thúc, an autobiography about the life of the ill-fated singer Wanbi Tuấn Anh.

Dandelion (song)

Dandelion” is a song by the English rock 'n roll band The Rolling Stones, written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, and first released as a B-side to “ We Love You” in August 1967. An apparently lighthearted song (with references to the English children's game of using the seedheads of dandelions as clocks) albeit with an undertone of wistfulness, it reached #14 in the United States, and effectively became the A-side there (as the edgier “We Love You” disappointed at #50 on US charts). This is reflected in “Dandelion” appearing on both the US and United Kingdom versions of Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) in 1969, while “We Love You” appeared only on the UK version.

The first demo version of “Dandelion” was recorded in November 1966; it was originally titled “Sometimes Happy, Sometimes Blue”, had different lyrics, and was sung and played by Keith Richards. On the released version, Mick Jagger sang lead vocals.

The Rolling Stones have never performed “Dandelion” live; nonetheless it has been included on several compilations, including Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2), More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies), Singles Collection: The London Years, and Rolled Gold+: The Very Best of the Rolling Stones.

The original single releases had a faded-in coda consisting of a short piano section from the A-side, “We Love You”; the coda is missing on most compilation albums, which include the song in a 3:32 edit, but it may be heard, for example, on Singles Collection: The London Years.

Dandelion (French band)

Dandelion was a French psychedelic folk band.

The story of Dandelion can be traced back to 1976 when Jean Christophe Graf formed together with Serge Cuenot (future member of the French progressive rock band Ange) the band Ode. This band split after two gigs and Jean Christophe formed Dandelion in 1979 in the French town of Belfort. It consisted of Jean Christophe Graf ( guitars, bass guitar and voice), Thierry Weibel ( drums and percussion) and Olivier Richardot ( keyboards).

Their first album, Dandelion was released in 1979 on the label Le Kiosque D'Orphée and recorded on the Cultural Center of Giromagny with a minimal budget. This album has been reissued by Spanish reissue label Guerssen.

By the 1980s they decided to update their musical style and started playing new wave music, totally different from the style of their first and eponymous album. Their second album, L'Amour Et La Haine, was released in 1981.

The band disbanded on 1983.

Usage examples of "dandelion".

Dandelion, Gentian and Valerian for some reason have survived and the Homeopaths use many more, but such useful plants as Agrimony, Slippery Elm, Horehound, Bistort, Poplar, Bur Marigold, Wood Betony, Wood Sanicle, Wild Carrot, Raspberry leaves, and the Sarsaparillas are now only used by Herbalists.

Most of the flowers used for jaundice are yellow, like the Dandelion, Agrimony, Celandine, Hawkweed and Marigold.

Even when you do mow it, the dandelion roots are still there and ready to do the whole thing all over again --examples of the kind of angiosperm that evolved to survive heavy low feeding.

The weather reflected her spirits, though her future did not seem as bright as the green fields outside the window, the purple aubrietia that spilled over garden walls, the gay red and yellow tulips, the thousands of tiny daisies and dandelions that carpeted the grassy pastures.

I catch three pumpkinseed sunfish and a catfish while Bando gathers tender dandelion leaves, chicory greens, and wild carrots for salad.

To make this, use broom-tops and dandelion roots, of each half an ounce, boiling them in a pint of water down to half a pint, and towards the last adding half an ounce of bruised juniper berries.

Theo and Cumber, gave a little snort, then picked up her tiny bowl of dandelion wine and had another drink.

Crabgrass, dandelions, kudzu, knotweed, tamarisk, leafy spurge, and norway maple, pushing native species to extinction.

On the sequestered slopes of the low mountain valleys green mosses once more carpeted the earth, buttercups and dandelions peeped pale golden eyes from the ground, in the teeming crevices of the high promontories delicate green and crimson lichens wove a marvellous lacery, and wherever the sun poured its encouraging springtime light beauteous small star- and bell-shaped flowers burst into an effulgence of pale rose and glistening white bloom.

In homeopathy the Anemone and the Forget-me-not are known as Pulsatilla and Myosotis, and chemists accustomed to the Latin names may be shocked to find Taraxacum under Dandelion, Podophyllum under Mandrake, and Calendula under Marigold.

Slaves were stringing garlands around the cornices of the little gazebos and shrines, pulling the ubiquitous, spiky leaves of dandelions from the miniature lawns, plucking pondweed from among the miles of waterlilies and setting up tables for buffets or platforms for musicians.

Acre by acre the property was assembled and rezoned for single family dwellings and the little houses sprung up like dandelions.

A red dead-nettle, a mauve thistle, white and pink bramble flowers, a white strawberry, a little yellow tormentil, a broad yellow dandelion, narrow hawkweeds, and blue scabious, are all in flower in the lane.

I said next thing down the hill whee and off out into the open country again cows looking over ditches, where are you off to Francie mind your own business you nosey heifer bastards, watch out dandelions here I come!

What grass had managed to gain a roothold was salt resistant marram, growing in crannies where a poor soil had gathered, and even the dandelions were wizened and sickly growths.