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# dandelion

«dandelion» in Mova's school dictionary: **a common wild plant with a bright yellow flower that…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a dandelion, dandelions)

### meaning for a pupil

A dandelion is a common wild plant with a bright yellow flower that turns into a white fluffy ball of seeds, called a clock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dandelion/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In nature lessons, dandelions show how seeds spread by wind: each seed has a tiny parachute. Children blow the seed head to make a wish or tell the time. Bees love dandelions in spring. Phrases: dandelion clock, blow a dandelion, dandelion seeds.

### examples

- The lawn is full of yellow dandelions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dandelion/#x1)
- I blew the dandelion clock and the seeds flew away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dandelion/#x2)
- Dandelion seeds have tiny parachutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dandelion/#x3)
- Bees visit dandelions for nectar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dandelion/#x4)
- Rabbits like to eat dandelion leaves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dandelion/#x5)
- A dandelion seed can travel a long way on the wind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dandelion/#x6)
- Some people make a wish when they blow a dandelion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dandelion/#x7)

### note

Countable noun. The name comes from French dent de lion, lion's tooth, because of the jagged leaves. Myth: you can't really tell the time by how many puffs it takes to blow away the seeds.

### In the corpora

- [Dandelion seeds float on tiny parachutes into pavement cracks, where dust and water collect, and a long taproot finds water deep down.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/14-the-city-as-a-habitat/9/)
- [Dandelions and other early flowers are important food for bees in spring, when few other flowers are open.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/10/)
- [The same dandelion is a weed on Dad's lawn and a feast for the first bees of spring.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/340-weeds-and-wildflowers-dandelions-nettles-daisies-clover-and-plantain/1/)
- [Scientists found that a dandelion seed's parachute makes a little ring of swirling air above it that holds it up longer.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/3-parachutes-and-falling-safely/9/)
- [Some seeds are carried by the wind, like dandelion and maple seeds.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/23-flowers-and-seeds/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dandelion» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dandelion/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.