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Dandelion vs Null - What's the difference?

dandelion | null |

As nouns the difference between dandelion and null

is that dandelion is (countable) any of the several species of plant in the genus taraxacum'', characterised yellow flower heads and notched, broad-ended leaves, especially the common dandelion (''taraxacum officinale ) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective dandelion

is of a yellow colour, like that of the flower.

dandelion

Noun

  • (countable) Any of the several species of plant in the genus Taraxacum'', characterised yellow flower heads and notched, broad-ended leaves, especially the common dandelion (''Taraxacum officinale ).
  • (countable) The flower head or fruiting head of the dandelion plant.
  • (uncountable) A yellow colour, like that of the flower.
  • Derived terms

    * dandelion clock * dandelion greens * dandelion salad * dandelion seeds * dandelion wine * dandelion yellow

    Hyponyms

    * , a white-flowering Japanese dandelion. * , the endangered California dandelion. * , Japanese dandelion. No ring of smallish, downward-turned leaves under the flowerhead. * , Russian dandelion, which produces rubber. * , red-seeded dandelion; achenes reddish brown and leaves deeply cut throughout length. Inner bracts' tips are hooded. ** . * Taraxacum officinale (syn. ), common dandelion. Found in many forms.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of a yellow colour, like that of the flower.
  • See also

    * clock * goatsbeard * hawk's beard * kok-saghyz * oxtongue * Taraxacum *

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  • (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
  • absent or non-existent
  • (mathematics) of the null set
  • (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
  • (genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----