Definitions for dandelion

dandelion dan·de·li·on

Spelling: [dan-dl-ahy-uh n]
IPA: /ˈdæn dlˌaɪ ən/

Dandelion is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 344 anagrams from letters in dandelion (addeilnno).

Definitions for dandelion

noun

  1. a weedy composite plant, Taraxacum officinale, having edible, deeply toothed or notched leaves, golden-yellow flowers, and rounded clusters of white, hairy seeds.
  2. any other plant of the genus Taraxacum.

Origin of dandelion

1505-15; Middle French, alteration of dent de lion, literally, tooth of (a) lion, translation of Medieval Latin dēns leōnis, in allusion to the toothed leaves

Examples for dandelion

The Queen's throne was a dandelion flower and a regal throne it was.

Turn to your companion to voice this worry, but then instead get distracted by a dandelion.

But regular broccoli will do; also rough greens—spinach, kale, dandelion greens, Swiss chard.

You braid it just like we braid the daisy stems and the dandelion stems in the fields.

Her hair was soft, soft and white as a puppy's, soft and white like the down from a dandelion.

It is found in the tuber of the dahlia, in the dandelion, and some other plants.

His palace was as yellow a home as a dandelion to a bee, but not half so sweet.

In the dandelion and wild lettuces, the juice is merely bitter.

Feel really guilty about having maybe just caused the greatest natural disaster ever on dandelion World X177782.

It forms a large ball, and browner; dandelion seed-balls are white.

Word Value for dandelion
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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