A plant with blue flowers which is cultivated for its edible seeds and for its fibers that are used to make cloth.
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Examples for "flax "
Examples for "flax "
1 Hemp and flax seemed to work particularly well, though hemp was rougher.
2 It was the best flax I ever had, in the first place.
3 Much ado to get in the rye, and the flax half spoiled.
4 It was in grains, about the size and shape of flax seed.
5 The Cyclopes returned with large quantities of tow-shortfibers of carded flax .
1 Rub stains on furniture with cold-drawn linseed oil; then rub with alcohol.
2 We use the highest grade of lead and the purest linseed oil.
3 An eerie stillness seemed to envelop the room like a linseed poultice.
4 Cotton oil-cake is now ordered at the same price as linseed cake.
5 Beans, peas, linseed and gluten meals may be used in small quantities.
1 Linen, the other product of the vegetable kingdom, is obtained from the fibres of the common flax .
2 Like common flax , or linseed, its seeds are naturally rich in the plant version of short-chain omega-3 fatty acids.
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