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What is a flax?

What is a flax? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A plant of the genus Linum, especially Linum usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flowers. Also known as linseed, especially when referring to the seeds.
  2. The fibers of Linum usitatissimum, grown to make linen and related textiles.
  3. The flax bush, a plant of the genus Phormium, native to New Zealand, with strap-like leaves up to 3 metres long that grow in clumps.
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Many of the second and third generation of settlers grew flax and spun and wove yarn in addition to tending a small farm.
What was the need, then, for a specific text to prove the permissibility of mingling wool and flax in zizith?
Embedding flax fibers into composite materials and nonwoven sheets provides strength and reinforcement to the goods.
Though working with flax was considered mainly women's work, slaves were often kept as free labour to help process it for sale.
Polyunsaturated oils, such as flax, corn, hemp, safflower, sesame and sunflower, have at least two gaps.
He stayed single and spent his daylight hours clearing the land of manuka, fern and flax.

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