名詞 dandelion:

1. 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
   同義詞：blowball

1. The downy flower head of a dandelion that has gone to seed.
   蒲公英的絨毛花蒲公英的長(zhǎng)茸的花頭，吹散后可以播種
2. We regard dandelion as an emblem of hope.
   我們把蒲公英看作希望的象征。

dan.de.li.on

n.（名詞）
A Eurasian plant(Taraxacum officinale) of the composite family having many-rayed yellow flower heads and deeply notched basal leaves. Widely naturalized as a weed in North America, it is used in salads and to make wine.
蒲公英：歐亞大陸的一種菊科植物（藥蒲公英 蒲公英屬） ，長(zhǎng)有許多放射狀的黃色花頭，和具有很深鋸齒狀的基生葉。在北美洲是一種生長(zhǎng)很廣的野草，用來(lái)做沙拉和制酒
Any of several similar or related plants.
蒲公英植物：一種類似的或有關(guān)的植物
Color A brilliant to vivid yellow.
【色彩】 明黃色：明亮的鮮黃色

來(lái)源：
Middle English dent-de-lioun
中古英語(yǔ) dent-de-lioun
from Old French dentdelion
源自 古法語(yǔ) dentdelion
from Medieval Latin dôns leônis [lion`s tooth (from its sharply indented leaves)]
源自 中世紀(jì)拉丁語(yǔ) dôns leônis [獅子的牙齒（從有凹印很深的葉子而來(lái)）]
Latin dôns dent- [tooth] * see dent-
拉丁語(yǔ) dôns dent- [牙] *參見 dent-
Latin leônis [genitive of] leô [lion] * see lion
拉丁語(yǔ) leônis [] leô的所有格 [獅子] *參見 lion

<注釋>Dentdelioun, the Middle English form of dandelion, makes it easy to see that our word is a borrowing of Old Frenchdentdelion, literally, .tooth of the lion,. referring to the sharply indented leaves of the plant.Modern Frenchdent-de-lion, unlike Modern English dandelion, reveals to anyone who knows French what the components of the word are.The English spelling,on the other hand, reflects the pronunciation of the Old French word at the time it was borrowed into English.For example, thet in dentdelion probably disappeared early in Old French, having been absorbed into the related sound of thed. The earliest recorded instance of the word occurs in a herbal written in 373,but we find an instance ofdandelion used in a proper name (Willelmus Dawndelyon) in a document dated 3'3.
Dentdelioun 是 dandelion 的中世紀(jì)英語(yǔ)的形式， 它使我們很容易地就能看出這個(gè)詞是從古法語(yǔ)dentdelion 借用過(guò)來(lái)的， 實(shí)際上.tooth of the lion,.指該植物鋒利的鋸齒狀葉?，F(xiàn)代法語(yǔ)的dent-de-lion 不象現(xiàn)代英語(yǔ) dandelion ， 顯示給知道這個(gè)單詞組成要素的法語(yǔ)的任何人。這個(gè)英語(yǔ)單詞的拼寫，另一方面，反映了古法語(yǔ)被借用到英語(yǔ)中時(shí)的發(fā)音。比如：t 在 dentdelion 一詞中也許在古法語(yǔ)中早已不存在， 而已被相關(guān)的音d 吸收。 這個(gè)詞的最早有記錄的實(shí)例能在373年的植物學(xué)文章中找到，但我們已在3'3年的文件中找到了dandelion 的例子被用于合適的名字中(Willelmus Dawndelyon)