dandelion has definitions from the field of botany
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[ noun ] (botany) any of several herbs of the genus Taraxacum having long tap roots and deeply notched leaves and bright yellow flowers followed by fluffy seed balls

Synonyms

blowball

Used in print

(W. H. Gass, "The Pedersen Kid," in The...)

The covers slid down his skinny neck so I saw his head , fuzzed like a dandelion gone to seed , but his face was turned to the wall - there was the pale shadow of his nose on the plaster - and I thought , Well you do n't look much like a pig-drunk bully now .

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