Definition of flax in English:
1A blue-flowered herbaceous plant that is cultivated for its seed (linseed) and for textile fiber made from its stalks.
- Linum usitatissimum, family Linaceae
- Oats, millet, opium poppies, and flax were also being cultivated by the end of the Neolithic period.
- Irish farmers came to rely on imported flax seed because the very best linen required the harvesting of flax before the seed could mature.
- Many have abundant gardens, with brilliant red poppies, orange marigolds, blue flax, pink clematis and jacaranda, and large cypress and eucalyptus trees.
1.1Textile fiber obtained from the flax plant: a mill for the preparation and spinning of flax
More example sentences
- Handmade utensils have been produced since the beginning of the nineteenth century; the primary textiles are wool and flax.
- Linen is from flax, a bast fiber taken from the stalk of the plant.
- Prior to that, cushions were stuffed with flax, cotton or other padded materials and the result was fairly deadening.
1.2Used in names of other plants of the flax family (e.g., purging flax) or plants that yield similar fiber (e.g., false flax).
- Travelling with them were weeds of nuisance significance, selection favouring their life-cycles to fit those of the crops or to mimic them: false oat in cereals, and in flax, the false flax.
Words that rhyme with flaxaxe (US ax), Backs, Bax, fax, lax, max, pax, Sachs, sax, saxe, tax, wax
Definition of flax in:
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