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COMMON DANDELION

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Meaning:

Eurasian plant widely naturalized as a weed in North America; used as salad greens and to make wine

Synonyms:

common dandelion; Taraxacum officinale; Taraxacum ruderalia

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("common dandelion" is a kind of...):

blowball; dandelion (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)

Meronyms (parts of "common dandelion"):

dandelion green (edible leaves of the common dandelion collected from the wild; used in salads and in making wine)

dandelion green (the foliage of the dandelion plant)

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