Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Dandelion

Dandelion , noun

[French dent de lion lion's tooth, from Latin dens tooth + leo lion. See Tooth, n., and Lion.]

(Botany) 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.