Josh Clark

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So, Chuck, dandelion, I've never stopped and considered why it was called that.

But it turns out that lion at the end is actually a giveaway for where the name came from.

It's French for lion's tooth, dent de lion.

Pretty neat.

I love that.

The reason they call it that is it's a reference to the deeply serrated, jagged leaves.

I guess somebody was like, that looks like a lion's tooth.

And they lived in France, and that's where they got the name dandelion.

Yeah.

And it's also if you look at the the botanical name, it really gives a good indication of what it was being used for back then.

The genus name is Taraxacum.

And there are a couple of explanations here.

I kind of like the second one.

The first one is a Greek word for disorder, which is ataxia.

But it's also could have come from Arabic for bitter herb, which is Taraxacum.

And then when you combine bitter herb with the species name, which is, how would you say that?

Aficionale?

I don't know.

Aficionale.