Meaning

3 senses
  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).

    Löwenzahn, Hundeblume, Kuhblume

    одува́нчикoduvánčik

    кульба́баkulʹbába

    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

  2. (countable)The flower head or fruiting head of the dandelion plant.

    Löwenzahnfarbe, Löwenzahngelb

  3. (uncountable)A yellow colour, like that of the flower.

Examples

28 sentences
  1. Why are dandelions considered weeds?

    ruПочему одуванчики считаются сорняками?

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  2. Dandelions often grow in lawns.

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  3. There are a lot of dandelions in the lawn.

    На газоні багато кульбаб.

    ruНа газоне много одуванчиков.

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  4. In the spring, the fields are covered with dandelions.

    Навесні поля вкриті кульбабами.

    ruВесной поля покрываются одуванчиками.

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  5. The children blow dandelions to see the seeds disperse on the wind.

    Діти дмухають на кульбабки щоб побачити, як насіння розлітається по вітру.

    ruДети дуют на одуванчики, чтобы увидеть, как семена разлетаются по ветру.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
plant, wild flower of the genus Taraxacum:
Русский
By meaning 1
plant, wild flower of the genus Taraxacum:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
plant, wild flower of the genus Taraxacum:
color of a dandelion flower, dandelion color, dandelion yellow:

Origin

From Middle English dentdelyon, from Old French dent de lion (“lion's tooth”), also in Lat

From Middle English dentdelyon, from Old French dent de lion (“lion's tooth”), also in Latin dēns leōnis, referring to the jagged shape of the plant's leaves. The term is now rare in French (together with liondent, calque from Germanic), but compare Spanish diente de león, Portuguese dente-de-leão, Italian dente di leone, German Löwenzahn, Norwegian Bokmål løvetann, Welsh dant y llew, all descendants, calques, or loan translations of the Latin term. First attested in the late 14th c.

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Forms

plural: dandelions
Singulardandelion
Pluraldandelions

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • 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:blowball

Word family

14 related words

See also

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