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DANDELION GREEN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Edible leaves of the common dandelion collected from the wild; used in salads and in making wine
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("dandelion green" is a kind of...):
green; greens; leafy vegetable (any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables)
Holonyms ("dandelion green" is a part of...):
common dandelion; Taraxacum officinale; Taraxacum ruderalia (Eurasian plant widely naturalized as a weed in North America; used as salad greens and to make wine)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The foliage of the dandelion plant
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("dandelion green" is a kind of...):
foliage; leaf; leafage (the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants)
Holonyms ("dandelion green" is a part of...):
common dandelion; Taraxacum officinale; Taraxacum ruderalia (Eurasian plant widely naturalized as a weed in North America; used as salad greens and to make wine)