common dandelion

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

   SynonymsTaraxacum ruderaliaTaraxacum officinale

   Broaderdandelion

   Partsdandelion green

Questions about common dandelion

What does common dandelion mean?

common dandelion means "Eurasian plant widely naturalized as a weed in North America; used as salad greens and to make wine".

What is another word for common dandelion?

Close synonyms include Taraxacum ruderalia, Taraxacum officinale. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is common dandelion a common word?

common dandelion is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.