"Lion's tooth" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... gets its name from; lion's tooth. Leontodon comes from two Greek words which mean a lion and a tooth. See—there ain't another leaf like that in ...
— A Red Wallflower • Susan Warner
... blossom, and each long deeply indented leaf, grows, like the flower-stem and leaf of the Primrose, from a very short underground stem. It is from the indented leaves that the Dandelion gets its name. The leaves have something the appearance of the teeth of a lion. Now the French name for lion's tooth is dent de lion, and we English have corrupted this ...
— Wildflowers of the Farm • Arthur Owens Cooke |
