flax-leaf

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• Flax

  ·noun The skin or fibrous part of the flax plant, when broken and cleaned by hatcheling or combing. ...

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• Flax

  (Heb. pishtah, i.e., "peeled", in allusion to the fact that the stalks of flax when dried were first...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• flax, native

  n. The European flax is Linumusitatissimum, N.O. Liniae. There is a species inAustralia, Linum marg...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• Flax

  a well-known plant with yellowish stem and bright-blue flowers. Its fibres are employed in the manuf...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Leaf

  ·vi To shoot out leaves; to produce leaves; to <<Leave>>; as, the trees leaf in May. II. Leaf ·noun...

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• Leaf

  Of a tree. The olive-leaf mentioned Gen. 8:11. The barren fig-tree had nothing but leaves (Matt. 21:...

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• leaf

  To go off with the fall of the leaf; to be hanged: criminals in Dublin being turned off from the out...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• leaf

  The side of a lock-gate. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Earth flax

  ·- A variety of asbestus. ·see <<Amianthus>>. ...

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• Flax-plant

  ·noun A plant in new Zealand (Phormium tenax), allied to the lilies and aloes. The leaves are two in...

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• flax-blade

  n. the leaf of the New Zealand Flax (q.v.). 1872. A. Domett, `Ranolf,' i. 5, p. 11: «With flax-bl...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• flax-bush

  n. the bush of the New ZealandFlax. 1854. W. Golder, `Pigeons' Parliament,' Intro. p. v: «I had ....

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• flax-flower

  n. the flower of the NewZealand Flax (q.v.). 1872. A. Domett, `Ranolf,' xiv. 3, p. 221: «little i...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• flax-lily

  n. 1) An Australian fibre plant, Dianella laevis, var. aspera, R. Br., N.O. Liliaceae. (2) Phormium...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• lily, flax

  n. See flax-lily, and flax, New Zealand. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• Bay leaf

  ·- ·see under 3d Bay. ...

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• Five-leaf

  ·noun Cinquefoil; five-finger. ...

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• Leaf-footed

  ·adj Having leaflike expansions on the legs; — said of certain insects; as, the leaf-footed bug (Le...

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• Leaf-nosed

  ·noun Having a leaflike membrane on the nose; — said of certain bats, ·esp. of the genera Phyllosto...

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• Lion's leaf

  ·- A South European plant of the genus Leontice (L. leontopetalum), the tuberous roots of which cont...

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• Strip-leaf

  ·noun Tobacco which has been stripped of its stalks before packing. ...

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• Sumatra leaf

  ·add. ·- A thin, elastic, uniformly light-colored tobacco leaf, raised in Sumatra and extensively us...

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• Leaf, Walter

  Litt.D. (b. 1852) Scholar and translator. The Iliad of Homer translated into English Prose (with A...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• bitter-leaf

  n. a Tasmanian name for the Native Hop. See hops and hop-bush. ...

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• broad-leaf

  n. a settlers' name for Griselinia littoralis, Raoul; Maori name, Paukatea. 1879. W. N. Blair, `Bu...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• jelly-leaf

  n. i.q. Queensland hemp (q.v.). ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• leaf-insect

  n. See phasmid. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• walking-leaf

  n. See phasmid. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• Leaf, Leaves

  The word occurs in the Authorized Version either in singular or plural number in three different sen...

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• flax, New Zealand

  n. Phormium tenax, N.O. Liliaceae. A plant yielding a strong fibre.Called also, in New Zealand, Nat...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• silver-leaf boree

  n. i.q. boree (q.v.). ...

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