hawkbit

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) From the medieval belief that hawks ate the plant to improve their eyesight.

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hawkbit (plural hawkbits)

  1. Any dandelion-like flower of the genera Leontodon, Scorzoneroides, and others in subtribe Hypochaeridinae, in the family Asteraceae.

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