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