Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plant of the genus Leontodon, natural order Compositæ, related to the hawkweed and dandelion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The fall dandelion (
Leontodon autumnale ).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany Any
dandelion -likeflower of the genus Leontodon in the familyAsteraceae .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various common wildflowers of the genus Leontodon; of temperate Eurasia to Mediterranean regions
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Examples
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Against such minikin blossoms a drop of dew looks the size of a gazing-crystal, and the ordinary lemon-yellow hawkbit towers above them like a sunflower.
Try Anything Twice 1938
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Species to be targeted: Leontondon autumnalis (hawkbit or fall dandelion).
unknown title 2009
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The wild flowers that thrive under Tim's management regime include yellow rattle, hawkbit, birds 'foot trefoil, knapweed, devils bit scabious, sorrel, salad burnett and whorled caraway
WalesOnline - Home 2009
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_hierax_ -- a hawk, because people in the old country once thought that birds of prey swooped earthward to sharpen their eyesight with leaves of the hawkweed, hawkbit, or speerhawk, as they are variously called.
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891
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