dandelion

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That’s why our motif is the dandelion, and the asterisk in our name represents a fluffy dandelion seed.

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Quick take

Of a yellow colour, like that of the flower.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of dandelion gathered in one view.

adjective

Of a yellow colour, like that of the flower.

noun

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

noun

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

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for dandelion.

adjective

Of a yellow colour, like that of the flower.

noun

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

noun

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

noun

(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).

Example sentences

That’s why our motif is the dandelion, and the asterisk in our name represents a fluffy dandelion seed.

Some people also make dandelion wine and dandelion coffee.

Interestingly this was also a selling point of the Xerox Dandelion series machines that were running Star.

There is almost no macronutrient in dandelion, as besides water it's almost entirely indigestible cellulose fibre.

Dropping at 2000 feet per minute is not quite free fall, but it's a long way from a drifting dandelion seed.

In 100g of dandelion, how much vitamins & minerals do you think there are?

It's quite a lot of work digging dandelion roots; washing them; roasting them.

You can also make jam from dandelion flowers, though I don't find the taste really worth it.

Yesterday, at Fravia's final burial, i was blowing a dandelion in the wind.

I know a fair number of old-timers that still eat dandelion greens and fiddleheads and pigweed.

Node is not a language it is an implementation of a language, so the title would really be TCL vs JS or Dandelion vs Node...

By the way, the modern French name for dandelion is pissenlit.

Quote examples

Dandelion greens are a pretty normal "green" in Greece, used in salads roughly the same way that the southern U.

I put dandelion (literally "teeth of the lion" or dans de lion in french) in my smoothies weekly.

Dandelion is also called "piss the bed" because it's a mild diuretic.

By "packed" we mean a few micrograms of calcium, asorbic acid, & other micros dandelion offers, which is completely drowned out by the micros found in the other food one eats.

Proper noun examples

Emphasis on 'Common.' The theoretical possibility was that you could write a program on a MacIvory and then run it on your Symbolics Machine, ThinkingMachines machine, Unix Machine, Windows machine, PDP-11, Dandelion, DEC Alpha etc...