Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - flax
Flax
flax
n. 1 a a blue-flowered plant, Linum usitatissimum, cultivated for its textile fibre and its seeds (see LINSEED). b a plant resembling this. 2 a dressed or undressed flax fibres. b archaic linen, cloth of flax. Phrases and idioms flax-lily (pl. -ies) NZ any plant of the genus Phormium, yielding valuable fibre. flax-seed linseed. Etymology: OE fl{aelig}x f. WG
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noun Usage: often attributive see: ply Date: before 12th century any of a genus (Linum of the family Linaceae, the ~ family) of herbs, the fiber of the ~ plant especially when prepared for spinning, any of several plants resembling ~, ~y adjective ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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