toadflax

IPA: tˈoʊdfɫˈæks

Any of several European plants, of the genus Linaria, having two-lipped yellow flowers.
Any of several other plants in the family Plantaginaceae.

Examples of "toadflax" in Sentences

Herbs and cabbages rise from the borders where Mr Darwin grew common toadflax.
Unlike the clover, the wood-sorrel and the ivy-leaved toadflax move with sudden violence.
Subject line on the e-mail I am least likely to open this week: "Correction: Dalmatian toadflax story."
A mellow brick wall enclosed the orchard, a wall beautified by small green ferns, by pink and red valerian, and yellow toadflax.
"What d-ye think your father will do, " he inquired, swishing his stick casually through a patch of toadflax, -once ye've wed and left his house?
Her fingers shook a little as she took a few blossoms of creamy-yellow toadflax he had picked for her out of their vase and laid them tentatively against her gown.
Among the rough white stones of the wall there were all manner of wild herbs growing, toadflax and ivy, stonecrop and selfheal, known by their leaves even now that hardly any flowers remained.
It was her definite rejection of the country and all it stood for; but on a gust of sentiment she picked up the toadflax blossoms and stuck them in water again -- her last tribute to the memory of Ishmael.