flax
/flaks/US/flæks/
flax noun: 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.
Noun
flax (countable and uncountable, plural flaxes)
- 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.
- The fibers of Linum usitatissimum, grown to make linen and related textiles.
- A 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.
Proper noun capitalized: Flax
Flax (plural Flaxes)
- A surname.
flax meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
flax in Hindi
- flax
- उमा umā, सन san
flax in Tamil
- plant
- ஆளி āḷi
flax in Marathi
- flax, linseed
- जवस j̈avas
flax in Urdu
- flax
- اما umā
More languagesFewer languages
- flax in Bengali
- তিসি tiśi
- flax in Malayalam
- ചണച്ചെടി, ചണനാര്
- flax in Kannada
- ಅಗಸೆನಾರು agasenāru
- flax in Gujarati
- અળસી aḷsī
- flax in Odia
- ଛଣ chaṇa
- flax in Sanskrit
- उमा umā
- flax in Assamese
- শণ xon, তিচী tisi
- flax in Nepali
- फ्ल्याक्स
- flax in Tagalog
- sulid
- flax in Arabic
- كَتَّان kattān, كَتّان kattān
- flax in Malay
- flaks
- flax in Persian
- کتان katân, وش vaš, زغر zeġer
- flax in Vietnamese
- lanh
Examples of flax in a sentence
- Before the advent of synthetics, textile manufacturing depended almost exclusively on wool, silk and fiber plants such as cotton and flax.
- Sheep and flax produce the natural fibers wool and linen.
- Flax grew more rapidly and matured earlier than linseed and this difference in timing of growth led to annidation.
Forms of flax
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | flaxes |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Flaxes |
Origin of flax
From Middle English flax, from Old English fleax, from Proto-Germanic *flahsą, from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- (“to plait”). Cognate with Old Frisian flax, Dutch vlas, Old High German flahs (German Flachs); the Northern Germanic (and most likely the Gothic too) stem is different.
Words formed from flax
Phrases with flax
Words that rhyme with flax
Questions about flax
- What does flax mean?
- Flax means 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.
- What is flax in Hindi?
- Flax in Hindi is उमा (umā), सन (san). See Flax meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is flax?
- Flax can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce flax?
- Flax is pronounced /flaks/ (UK).
- What is the plural of flax?
- The plural of flax is flaxes.
Words near flax in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: flax (page history and authors); Flax (page history and authors); उमा (Hindi) (page history and authors); जवस (Marathi) (page history and authors); اما (Urdu) (page history and authors); flax (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ଛଣ (Odia) (page history and authors); তিচী (Assamese) (page history and authors); flax (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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