flax

IPA: fɫˈæks

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.
The fibers of Linum usitatissimum, grown to make linen and related textiles.
The flax bush, a plant of the genus Phormium, native to New Zealand, with strap-like leaves up to 3 metres long that grow in clumps.
A surname.

Examples of "flax" in Sentences

My flax is spun, my wheel is hushed, and so I wait the morrow.
"As well might you bid Madam Toad to spin flax without her distaff."
'As well might you bid Madam Toad to spin flax without her distaff.'
Shure I know that flax is grown to make linen wid, not to feed oxen.
She said originally, in 1999, her coach gave her what he described as flax seed oil.
Name one farm commodity from kumquats to radishes, from cotton to flax, that isn't grossly overproduced.
Ms. Moskowitz has published recipes in which, in lieu of eggs, flax seeds are ground into meal, then blended with water to form what she calls "flax goop."
The country is small, but every part of the land is made fertile by the industry of the farmers, of whom there are a great number; many of them grow flax, which is woven into linen by the women.
"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."
Each member of the family has a pallet of coarse cloth stuffed with fluffy flax, which is placed at night on the floor, on benches, on part of the top of the huge stone or brick stove, or on a platform laid close up under the ceiling on beams extending from the stove to the opposite wall of the living-room.