flax

noun

• a blue-flowered herbaceous plant that is cultivated for its seed (linseed) and for textile fibre made from its stalks.

  • Linum usitatissimum, family Linaceae
• textile fibre obtained from the flax plant:a mill for the preparation and spinning of flax
• used in names of other plants of the flax family (e.g. purging flax) or plants that yield similar fibre (e.g. false flax).
• another term for New Zealand flax.