Hyphenation
dan·de·lı·onEtymology
[ 'dan-d&-"lI-&n, -dE- ] (noun.) 14th century. From French dent-de-lion (literally "lion's tooth"), also in Late Latin dēns leōnis. The term has since died out in France, but compare Spanish diente de león, Italian dente di leone, Portuguese dente-de-leão, and also German Löwenzahn, all having the same literal meaning.