flax : Idioms & Phrases

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devil's flax

  • noun common European perennial having showy yellow and orange flowers; a naturalized weed in North America
    Linaria vulgaris; wild snapdragon; toadflax; butter-and-eggs.
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Earth flax

  • (Min.), amianthus.
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false flax

  • noun annual and biennial herbs of Mediterranean to central Asia
    Camelina; genus Camelina.
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Flax brake

  • a machine for removing the woody portion of flax from the fibrous.
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Flax comb

  • a hatchel, hackle, or heckle.
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Flax cotton

  • the fiber of flax, reduced by steeping in bicarbinate of soda and acidulated liquids, and prepared for bleaching and spinning like cotton. Knight.
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Flax dresser

  • one who breaks and swingles flax, or prepares it for the spinner.
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flax family

  • noun a widely distributed family of plants
    Linaceae; family Linaceae.
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Flax mill

  • a mill or factory where flax is spun or linen manufactured.
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Flax puller

  • a machine for pulling flax plants in the field.
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flax rust

  • noun fungus causing flax rust
    Melampsora lini; flax rust.
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flax rust fungus

  • noun fungus causing flax rust
    Melampsora lini; flax rust.
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Flax wench

  • . (a) A woman who spins flax. Obs. (b) A prostitute. Obs. Shak.
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flax-plant

Flax"-plant` noun
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  1. (Bot.) A plant in new Zealand (Phormium tenax), allied to the lilies and aloes. The leaves are two inches wide and several feet long, and furnish a fiber which is used for making ropes, mats, and coarse cloth.
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Fossil cork, flax, paper, ∨ wood

  • varieties of amianthus.
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Mountain flax

  • (Min.), a variety of asbestus, having very fine fibers; amianthus. See Amianthus.
  • (Min.), amianthus.
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New Zealand flax

  • . (a) (Bot.) A tall, liliaceous herb (Phormium tenax), having very long, sword-shaped, distichous leaves which furnish a fine, strong fiber very valuable for cordage and the like . (b) The fiber itself.
  • (Bot.) See Flax-plant.
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Purging flax

  • (Bot.), an annual European plant of the genus Linum (L. catharticum); dwarf wild flax; so called from its use as a cathartic medicine.
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Spurge flax

  • an evergreen shrub (Daphne Gnidium) with crowded narrow leaves. It is native of Southern Europe.
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Strike of flax

  • a handful that may be hackled at once. Obs. or Prov. Eng. Chaucer.
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