Definition of Hawkbit

1. Noun. Any of various common wildflowers of the genus Leontodon; of temperate Eurasia to Mediterranean regions.

Generic synonyms: Wild Flower, Wildflower
Group relationships: Genus Leontodon, Leontodon
Specialized synonyms: Arnica Bud, Fall Dandelion, Leontodon Autumnalis

Definition of Hawkbit

1. n. The fall dandelion (Leontodon autumnale).

Definition of Hawkbit

1. Noun. (botany) Any dandelion-like flower of the genus ''Leontodon'' in the family ''Asteraceae''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hawkbit

1. a plant closely related to the dandelion [n -S]

Medical Definition of Hawkbit

1. The fall dandelion (Leontodon autumnale). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hawkbit

hawk's-beard
hawk's-beards
hawk-beaked
hawk-billed
hawk-eyed
hawk-nose
hawk moth
hawk moths
hawk nose
hawk noses
hawk owl
hawkbell
hawkbells
hawkbill
hawkbills
hawkbit (current term)
hawkbits
hawked
hawker
hawkers
hawkey
hawkeyed
hawkeyes
hawkeys
hawkfish
hawkfishes
hawkie
hawkies
hawking
hawkings

Literary usage of Hawkbit

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

1. The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1912 by Burton Egbert Stevenson (1912)
"Alfred Tennyson [1809-1892] THE hawkbit How sweetly on the autumn scene, When haws are red amid the green, The hawkbit shines with face of ..."

2. A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants by William Withering, William MacGillivray (1830)
"Deficient hawkbit. Stalks leafless, one-flowered ; leaves toothed, ... Autumnal hawkbit. Flower-stalk branched, the partial stalks scaly, and swelled under ..."

3. British and Garden Botany: Consisting of Descriptions of the Flowering by Leo Hartley Grindon (1864)
"HAIRY hawkbit—Thrin'cia hir'ta. Dry banks, gravelly fields, moors, and downs; ... ROUGH hawkbit—Apar'gia his'pida. Meadows and pastures, especially near the ..."

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