flax
/flæks/noun
mass noun
1- a blue-flowered herbaceous plant that is cultivated for its seed (linseed) and for textile fibre made from its stalks亚麻。
1.1
- Linum usitatissimum, family Linaceae.拉丁名 Linum usitatissimum,亚麻科。
1.2
- textile fibre obtained from this plant亚麻纤维：
a mill for the preparation and spinning of flax.
亚麻加工纺织厂。
1.3
- used in names of other plants of the flax family (e.g. purging flax) or plants that yield similar fibre (e.g. false flax)［用于其他亚麻科植物或产出类似纤维的植物名称中, 前者如purging flax, 后者如false flax］。
词源
Old 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'.