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dent-de-lion
Old French · medieval
"lion's tooth"
literally lion's tooth, describing the plant's sharply jagged leaves
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dandelion
English · 1400s
"a yellow-flowered weed with jagged leaves"
run together into a single English word for the yellow-flowered weed
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