Crossword-Solution: FLAX
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Flax | n. | A plant of the genus Linum, esp. the L. usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flowers. The fiber of the bark is used for making thread and cloth, called linen, cambric, lawn, lace, etc. Linseed oil is expressed from the seed. |
| Flax | n. | The skin or fibrous part of the flax plant, when broken and cleaned by hatcheling or combing. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| FLAX | anagram | FALX |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with FLAX (5)
The Owl next advised them to pluck up the seed of the flax, which men had sown, as it was a plant which boded no good to them.
Her hair is still like flax, and her blue eyes are just like a baby’s, and she has the same three freckles on her little nose, and talks about going back to her _bains de mer_.” Bartley looked at Hilda across the yellow light of the candles and broke into a low, happy laugh.
While the days were long and the grass was growing, I had to lead our goats to pasture in the wood-lawns, and must take with me rock and spindle, and spin so much of flax or hair as the woman gave me, or be beaten.
Flax and tussock and fern, Gum and mulga and sand, Reef and palm -- but my fancies turn Ever away from land; Strange wild cities in ancient state, Range and river and tree, Snow and ice.
For the plain is parched By flax-crop, parched by oats, by poppies parched In Lethe-slumber drenched.
Quotes with FLAX (3)
Mothers, fathers, our kind, tell me again that death doesn't matter. Tell me it's just a limitation of vision ,a fold of landscape, a deep flax-and-poppy-filled gully hidden on the hill, pleat in our perception a somersault of existence, natural, even beneficent even a gift, the only key to the red-lacquered door at the end of the hall," water within water," those old stories.
If you are a dreamer come in If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer If youre a pretender com sit by my fire For we have some flax golden tales to spin Come in! Come in!
Paris and Helen He called her: golden dawn She called him: the wind whistles He called her: heart of the sky She called him: message bringer He called her: mother of pearl barley woman, rice provider, millet basket, corn maid, flax princess, all-maker, weef She called him: fawn, roebuck, stag, courage, thunderman, all-in-green, mountain strider keeper of forests, my-love-rides He called her: the tree is She called him: bird dancing He called her: who stands, has stood, will a…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 115 times in crossword archives (1942–2023).