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词汇 flax
释义 flax
noun[ U ]
uk /flæks/ us /flæks/
a plant with blue flowers grown for its stems or seeds, or the thread made from this plant亚麻;亚麻纤维
 
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Textiles made from natural fibres
Examples from literature

It was made from a plant called flax. 
All that he had to wear, therefore, was a white flax mat, which was given to him by the chief, and which, being thrown over his shoulders, came as low as his knees. 
Cotton enough to serve the wants of families, together with the wool from the flock, and some flax, were of prime consideration. 
It is believed that this will cause the flax to wave in the wind. 
The flax which was sown in this country rose three feet high. 
They were extra fine wicks, being made of flax for the company candles. 

Examples of flax


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Each time the roller passed over the flax stem some of the shive separated from the fibre.
Moreover, they also regularly bought foodstuffs, livestock and flax from their employer.
But the manufacturing processes that produced bar iron, flax, leather, and naval stores were primitive and easily mastered even by a semiliterate population.
The processing of wool, iron, and flax was done in monasteries or on large estates by serfs.
Improved method for fibre content and quality analysis and their application to flax genetic diversity investigations.
Retting - a key process in the production of high value fibre from flax.
Its demise, along with that of flax, coincided with the development of cotton and man-made fibres.
Oilseeds, including rapeseed and flax, were more sensitive than the cereals tested, including barley and wheat; oat growth was not affected at all67.
Physical and chemical properties of flax fibres from stand-retted crops desiccated at different stages of maturity.
Methods of retting flax and linseed and their effects on fibre yield and quality.
Rotation affected wheat and, to a lesser extent, flax seed yield.
The coefficients were based on grain weight for wheat, pea and flax, while the coefficient for alfalfa was based on dry matter weight17.
An alternative method of flax retting during dry weather.
Other flowering plants and grasses give us cotton, flax, jute and papyrus.
Highly variable nutritional values are given for other oilseeds, such as soybeans, flax, poppy seed and false flax, and their cakes26-29.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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