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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[F.

dent de lion

lion’s tooth, fr. L.

dens

tooth +

leo

lion. See

Noun.

, and

(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.

Noun.

A well known plant of the genus Leontodon, having a naked stalk, with one large flower.