flax
noun/flæks/
/flæks/
[uncountable]- a plant with blue flowers, grown for its stem that is used to make thread and its seeds that are used to make linseed oil
- threads from the stem of the flax plant, used to make linen
Word OriginOld English flæx, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch vlas and German Flachs, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin plectere and Greek plekein ‘to plait, twist’.
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