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A flower. The word is a corruption of the French dent de lion (lion’s tooth). Also called Leonʹtodon (lion-tooth, Greek), from a supposed resemblance between its leaves and the teeth of lions.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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