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blue flaxes

blue flaxes is the plural of blue flax.

Meaning of blue flax

Noun

blue flax (plural blue flaxes)

  1. Linum lewisii, native to North America; Lewis flax or prairie flax.
    • We made our halt at noon in a fertile bottom, where the common blue flax was growing abundantly, a few miles below the mouth of Thomas’s fork, one of the larger tributaries of the river.1845, J[ohn] C[harles] Frémont, Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-’44, Washington: Gales and Seaton...
  2. Linum narbonense.
  3. Linum perenne; lint.

Questions about blue flaxes

What is blue flaxes the plural of?
Blue flaxes is the plural of blue flax.

Words near blue flaxes in the dictionary

  1. blue flag
  2. blue flags
  3. blue flash
  4. blue flashes
  5. blue flax
  6. blue flaxes
  7. blue flier
  8. blue fliers
  9. blue flies
  10. blue flu
  11. blue flus

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