different between dandelion vs dumbledore

English

Etymology

From French dent-de-lion (“lion's tooth”), also in Late Latin d?ns le?nis. The term has since died out in French (except in Swiss French), but compare Spanish diente de león, Portuguese dente-de-leão, Italian dente di leone, German Löwenzahn, Norwegian Bokmål løvetann, Welsh dant y llew, all descendants or loan translations of the Latin term.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?dæn.d??la?.?n/, /?dæn.d??la?.?n/

Noun

dandelion (countable and uncountable, plural dandelions)

1. (countable) Any of the several species of plant in the genus Taraxacum, characterised by yellow flower heads and notched, broad-ended leaves, especially the common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale).
2. (countable) The flower head or fruiting head of the dandelion plant.
3. (uncountable) A yellow colour, like that of the flower.

Hyponyms

• Taraxacum albidum, a white-flowering Japanese dandelion.
• Taraxacum californicum, the endangered California dandelion.
• Taraxacum japonicum, Japanese dandelion. No ring of smallish, downward-turned leaves under the flowerhead.
• Taraxacum kok-saghyz, Russian dandelion, which produces rubber.
• Taraxacum laevigatum, red-seeded dandelion; achenes reddish brown and leaves deeply cut throughout length. Inner bracts' tips are hooded.
  • Taraxacum erythrospermum, often considered a variety of Taraxacum laevigatum.
• Taraxacum officinale (syn. Taraxacum officinale subsp. vulgare), common dandelion. Found in many forms.

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

dandelion (not comparable)

1. Of a yellow colour, like that of the flower.

Translations

See also

• clock
• goatsbeard
• hawk's beard
• kok-saghyz
• oxtongue
• pissabed
• Taraxacum
• Appendix:Colors

Anagrams

• daldinone

English

Alternative forms

• dumble-dor
• drumbledore
• dumbledor

Etymology

Compound of dumble (similar to bumble) +? dor (“a buzzing flying insect”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?m.b?l.d??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d?m.b?l.d???/

Noun

dumbledore (plural dumbledores)

1. (dialectal) A bumblebee.
   • 1875 Charlotte M Yonge, The Daisy Chain:

     Those slopes of fresh turf, embroidered with every minute blossom of the moor — thyme, birdsfoot, eyebright, and dwarf purple thistle, buzzed and hummed over by busy, black-tailed, yellow-banded dumbledores.

   • 1899 Thomas Hardy, An August Midnight:

     A shaded lamp and a waving blind, / And the beat of a clock from a distant floor: / On this scene enter – winged, horned, and spined – / A longlegs, a moth, and a dumbledore —

   • 1970 May 21, Evening Telegram, page 3:

     Now and then a dumbledore or ‘busy bee’ as they are called by some, propelled itself across our path, they being extremely large and heavy this year.

   • 1987 Seán Virgo, Selakhi, Exile Editions, Ltd., page 20:

     A dumbledore, lured from the plantation, lies on its back, leaping and churning upon Seth’s bright pages.

2. (dialectal) A beetle, typically a cockchafer or dung beetle.
   • 1964 Transactions of the American Philological Association, American Philological Association, Ginn & Co., page 267:

     others may need to be informd that a blastnashun straddlebob is a dumbledore, that is to say, a polyonymous lamellicorn coleopter, cald also a dorbeetle, a dorbug, a maybeetle, a maybug, a cockchafer, a Melolontha vulgaris.

3. (dialectal) A dandelion.
   • 1975 Peter J. Scott, Edible Fruits and Herbs of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Memorial University Oxen Pond Botanical Park, page 39:

     The Dandelion has a number of common names in Newfoundland. These include Dumbledore, Faceclock, and Piss-a-beds.

4. (slang) A blundering person.
   • 1872 Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree, chapter 4:

     “Miserable dumbledores!” / “Right, William, and so they be—miserable dumbledores!” said the choir with unanimity.

Translations

See also

• Dumbledorian