How did the Dandelion get its name?

Not surprisingly, the name refers to a part of the lion.

In England, before the sixteenth century, the weed was called lion’s tooth because of its serrated leaf’s resemblance to the lion’s incisor.

Later, the French translation, dent de lion, was adopted into English and eventually became anglicized to “dandelion.”

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