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n. A widely cultivated plant, Linum usitatissimum, having pale blue flowers, seeds that yield linseed oil, and slender stems from which a textile fiber is obtained.

n. The fine, light-colored textile fiber obtained from this plant.

n. Any of various other plants of the genus Linum or of similar or related genera.

n. A pale grayish yellow.

n. A plant of the genus Linum, especially Linum usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flowers. Also known as linseed, especially when referring to the seeds.

n. The fibers of Linum usitatissimum, grown to make linen and related textiles.

n. A plant of the genus Phormium, native to New Zealand, with strap-like leaves up to 3 metres long that grow in clumps called flax bushes.

n. A plant of the genus Linum, esp. the L. usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flowers. The fiber of the bark is used for making thread and cloth, called linen, cambric, lawn, lace, etc. Linseed oil is expressed from the seed.

n. The skin or fibrous part of the flax plant, when broken and cleaned by hatcheling or combing.

n. The common name for plants of the genus Linum and for the fiber obtained from the stems of L. usitatissimum.

n. One of several plants of other genera, mostly resembling common flax, as the false or white flax (Camelina sativa), mountain flax (Polygala Senega), toadflax (Linaria vulgaris), New Zealand flax (Phormium tenax), which yields a strong fiber, and spurge-flax (Daphne Gnidium).

n. The whitethroat, Sylvia cinerea: with reference to the material composing its nest.

n. Canvas linen, made from flax, used for sailmaking.

To beat.

To move quickly; “knock” about: as, to flax round (to move about in a lively or energetic manner).

n. The field-cress or mithridate mustard, Lepidium campestre.

n. In New Zealand, L. monogynum; also the New Zealand flax, Phormium tenax. See Phormium.

n. Same as Lewis's wild flax.

n. Same as toad-flax.

n. Same as false flax.

n. The garden tickseed or calliopsis, Coreopsis tinctoria.

n. fiber of the flax plant that is made into thread and woven into linen fabric

n. plant of the genus Linum that is cultivated for its seeds and for the fibers of its stem

""The evidence for some kind of massive programmed rearrangement upon environmental induction in flax is unequivocal," he writes, "but inheritance of acquired changes has been an anathema to evolutionary biologists ever since Darwin's time.""

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