[mod.L., f. Gr. λεοντ-, λέων LION + ὀδοντ-, ὀδούς tooth: a transl. of DANDELION.] A plant of the genus Leontodon, of which the Dandelion was the original type.
1807. Crabbe, Par. Reg., I. Wks. 1823, I. 64. There Arums, there Leontodons we view.
