Heh – “Randy’s”.
A passel of rug rats.
A herd of curtain climbers.
More like fertility clinic workers, they don’t keep the goods themselves, as it were.
Which is really pretty ironic, because I’ll bet not 1 person in a hundred million is going to look at the leaves of a dandelion and think “Hey! This looks like a lion’s tooth!” OTOH, even a small child can look at the yellow flower and connect it to pictures of (male) lions he’s seen in books or on TV.
alive?
That is interesting. The pink/red interior makes you think of a vagina but not someone’s open mouth? Come to think of it, the spines around the edges of the leaves could be compared to the teeth around the edge of an open mouth, too. I kind of agree with the person who said that some people (not just men) see sex everywhere.
In Thailand, “butterfly” has long been the term used for a man who likes to frequent different prostitutes. In recent years, some guys have ratcheted it up by calling themselves “helicopters.”
Of course, both of those are also slang for female genitalia.
Saying something that has obvious morphological similarities (“looks sort of like,” for us laymen) to a female organ is sexist?
Don’t get me started on Black Widow spiders then.
Si. One person.
“Dent-de-lion” isn’t a folk name. It’s the translation of the scientific name(Taraxacum) dens-leonis so named from its dented leaves by the botanist Desfontaines in order to differentiate it from Taraxacum palustre, the leaves of which have no “dents”.
“Dent-de-lion” has become popular among those who wanted to avoid the widely used folk name “pissenlit” (pissinbed), so called because of its diuretic properties.
And then there is Amorphophallus titanum, the giant misshapen phallus: Amorphophallus titanum - Wikipedia.
As posted elsewhere, the “teeth” only look that way at certain times, like when they’re closing to trap prey. Other times they are more open and much less tooth-like. I had a Venus flytrap as a kid, and they seem more hair-like than tooth-like from my experience.
They’re even kind of like fingers in some way, if you think of the flytrap as two hands closing together. They start splayed out, and then close up only when activated.
There is definitely a mouth-like comparison to be made, but since we’ve already named parts of the female organs “labia” there’s already an anatomical link from mouth to vulva.
However, in honor of you and in the spirit of Seinfeld, I now rename them the Del Boca Vista flytrap. 
“Mulva flytrap” would probably be more appropriate. 
I’ve never connected to flower to a lion’s mane, and can’t recall hearing anyone else drawing that comparison either. In Norwegian the plant’s name is just plain “Lion’s tooth” (Løvetann) though, so no reason to wonder what’s leonine about it, even if that’s not what I personally would have named it if I had to start from scratch today.
(I’d go for The Devil’s Milk pail, like in Danish, for the vile, white sap.)
I would add that several subspecies of wild plants have variation of ‘‘venus*’’ tacked onto their name and it is supposed to mean ‘‘charming’’.
From your link:
John Ellis wrote in 1768. This is what you would call a cover story:
“…and from the beautiful Appearance of its Milk-white Flowers, and the Elegance of its Leaves, thought it well deserved one of the Names of the Goddess of Beauty, and therefore called it Dionaea.”
The rude interpretation of the plant was eventually translated into Latin, which commemorates both Venus (the goddess of Love and Sex!!), and also the plant’s capturing capabilities. But it is important to observe that the specific name, “muscipula” does not mean flytrap. That would be “muscicapa.” The Latin muscipula means mousetrap! So when Ellis chose the Latin genus and species epithets, he chose something to recall forever the notion of the love-goddess’ grasping device that captures unwary little mammals. You nasty man!
John Ellis is the guy who discovered the plant, I surmise he named it before he sent a specimen to Linneaus, lest Linneaus name it himself. Ellis’ explanation seems fair to me. :dubious:
I think we can trust a guy named **carnivorousplant **on this score.
Isn’t it actually “Venus’s Fly trap?” As in, “the Flytrap belonging to/of Venus?”
It’s a predatory plant that lives by catching the elusive Venus Fly. That makes it a Venus Fly Trap.
Now, ya gotta ask: Why is the Venus Fly called the Venus Fly?
There is, of course, the infamous line from Flesh Gordon where Emperor Wang’s perversions are explained by his losing his member to a Penis Fly Trap.