meaning of lions
1. A name given in Western South America to certain plants with shaggy tomentose leaves, as species of Culcitium, and Espeletia.
2. A composite plant of the genus Prenanthes, of which several species are found in the United States.
3. The edelweiss.
4. See Leontodon.
5. A South European plant of the genus Leontice (L. leontopetalum), the tuberous roots of which contain so much alkali that they are sometimes used as a substitute for soap.
6. A genus of labiate plants (Leonurus); -- so called from a fancied resemblance of its flower spikes to the tuft of a lions tail. L. Cardiaca is the common motherwort.
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