Definition of Fall dandelion

1. Noun. Fall-blooming European herb with a yellow flower; naturalized in the United States.

Exact synonyms: Arnica Bud, Leontodon Autumnalis
Generic synonyms: Hawkbit

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fall Dandelion

fall armyworm
fall asleep
fall at the final hurdle
fall at the last hurdle
fall away
fall back
fall back on
fall back upon
fall behind
fall between two stools
fall board
fall by the wayside
fall cankerworm
fall dandelion (current term)
fall down
fall equinox
fall flat
fall for
fall foul
fall from grace
fall guy
fall ill
fall in
fall in line
fall in love
fall in with
fall into
fall into place

Literary usage of Fall dandelion

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Familiar Flowers of Field and Garden by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1895)
"In the southwesterly States, from Maryland to Kansas and Texas, there is another flower which closely resembles this fall dandelion, called the Cynthia ..."

2. How to Know the Wild Flowers: A Guide to the Names, Haunts, and Habits of by Frances Theodora Parsons (1895)
"From June till November we find the fall dandelion along the New England roadsides, as well as farther south. While the yellow flower-heads somewhat suggest ..."

3. A Preliminary Catalogue of the Flora of New Jersey by Nathaniel Lord Britton (1881)
"L. autumnale, L. fall dandelion. Waste places ; scarce. Freehold, OR Willis; in ballast at Camden, CF Parker. Nat. Eu. Hieracium, Tourn HAWKWEED. ..."

4. Gray's Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology by Asa Gray (1875)
"fall dandelion. Heads many-flowered. Involucre scarcely imbricated ... L. (FALL DANDELION.) Leaves laciniate-toothed or pinnatifid ; scape branched ..."

5. The Foot-path Way by Bradford Torrey (1892)
"... not argentea, as I should certainly have expected), many-flowered aster, cone-flower, yarrow, two kinds of groundsel, fall dandelion, ..."

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