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A well-known plant of the genus Taraxacum (T. officinale, formerly called T. Dens-leonis and Leontodos Taraxacum) bearing large, yellow, compound flowers, and deeply notched leaves.

A feathery crown of seed; egret; as, the aigrette or down of the dandelion or the thistle.

The downy seed head of a dandelion, which children delight to blow away. B. Jonson.

A thick head of flowers on a very short axis, as a clover top, or a dandelion; a composite flower. A capitulum may be either globular or flat. Gray.

anged in dense heads of many small florets and their anthers united in a tube. The daisy, dandelion, and asters, are examples.

er Compositæ; bearing involucrate heads of many small florets, as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion. Composite carriage, a railroad car having compartments of different classes. [Eng.] -- Composite number (Math.), one which can be divided exactly by a number exceeding unity, as 6 by 2 or 3.prime number. -- Composite p…

composed of several florets inclosed in a common calyxlike involucre, as the sunflower or dandelion. -- Compound fraction. (Math.) See Fraction. -- Compound fracture. See Fracture. -- Compound householder, a householder who compounds or arranges with his landlord that his rates shall be included in his rents. [Eng.]…

ives it its essential and characteristic virtue; essence; as, extract of beef; extract of dandelion; also, any substance so extracted, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained; as, quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark.

le flowers which compose the head or anthodium in such flowers as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion. Gray.

The fall dandelion (Leontodon autumnale).

A genus of liguliflorous composite plants, including the fall dandelion (L. autumnale), and formerly the true dandelion; -- called also lion's tooth.

aring only ligulate flowers; -- said of a large suborder of composite plants, such as the dandelion, hawkweed, etc.

The hairy or feathery appendage of the achenes of thistles, dandelions, and most other plants of the order Compositæ; also, the scales, awns, or bristles which represent the calyx in other plants of the same order.

A name locally applied to various wild plants, as dandelion, bluet, oxeye daisy, etc.

rootlike stem, or one which does not rise above the ground; as, the radical leaves of the dandelion and the sidesaddle flower.

Pinnately cut with the lobes pointing downwards, as the leaf of the dandelion.

Having all the florets ligulate, as in the dandelion.