Flax-plant

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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...

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• Plant

  ·noun The sole of the foot. II. Plant ·noun A plan; an artifice; a swindle; a trick. III. Plant ·n...

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• plant

  The place in the house of the fence where stolen goods are secreted. Any place where stolen goods ar...

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• plant

  v. tr. and n. common in Australiafor to hide, and for the thing hidden away. As remarkedin the quot...

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• plant

  A stock of tools, &c. Also, the fixtures, machinery, &c., required to carry on a business. ...

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• Earth flax

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

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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...

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• flax-bush

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

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• flax-flower

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

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• flax-leaf

  n. the blade of the New ZealandFlax (q.v.). 1884. T. Bracken, `Lays of Maori' p. 69: «Zephyrs sti...

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• flax-lily

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

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• lily, flax

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

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• Air plant

  ·- A plant deriving its sustenance from the air alone; an <<Aerophyte>>. ...

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• Dove plant

  ·- A Central American orchid (Peristeria elata), having a flower stem five or six feet high, with nu...

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• Host plant

  ·add. ·- A plant which aids, shelters, or protects another plant in its growth, as those which are u...

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• Ice plant

  ·- A plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum), sprinkled with pellucid, watery vesicles, which glisten ...

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• Plant-cane

  ·noun A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second ...

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• Plant-eating

  ·adj Eating, or subsisting on, plants; as, a plant-eating beetle. ...

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• Telegraph plant

  ·add. ·- An East Indian tick trefoil (Meibomia gyrans), whose lateral leaflets jerk up and down like...

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• Water plant

  ·- A plant that grows in water; an aquatic plant. ...

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• Wind-plant

  ·noun A <<Windflower>>. ...

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• butterfly-plant

  n. a small flowering plant, Utricularia dichotoma, Lab., N.O. Leutibularina. ...

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• caustic-plant

  or Caustic-Vine ,n. Sarcostemma australis, R. Br., N.O.Asclepiadea. Cattle and sheep are poisoned ...

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• coffee plant

  or Coffee Berry n. namegiven in Tasmania to the Tasmanian Native Holly (q.v.). ...

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• guitar plant

  a Tasmanian shrub, Lomatiatinctoria, R. Br., N.O. Proteaceae. ...

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• honey-plant

  n. name given in Tasmania to Richea scoparia Hook., N.O. Epacris. ...

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• ice-plant

  n. Tasmanian name for Tetragoniaimplexicoma, Hook., N.O. Ficoideae, B. Fl. Variousspecies of Tetrag...

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• ink-plant

  n. another name for the «toot,» a New Zealand shrub, Coriaria thymifolia, N.O.Coriarieae. Called In...

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• jelly-plant

  a sea-weed, Eucheuma speciosum,J. Agardh, N.O. Algae. 1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p...

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• milk-plant

  n. i.q. Caustic Creeper (q.v.). ...

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• officer plant

  n. another name for Christmas-Bush (q.v.), so called «because of its brightred appearance.» (Maiden...

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• pea-plant

  n. The term is applied sometimes toany one of various Australian plants of the N.O. Leguminosae. ...

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• plant-caterpillar

  n. name given in Australasiato species of caterpillars which are attacked by spores ofcertain fungi...

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• trigger-plant

  n. i.q. Hairtrigger (q.v.) plant; called also Jack-in-a-box. ...

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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...

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• bird-catching plant

  n. a New Zealand shrub ortree, Pisonia brunoniana, Endl., N.O. Nyctagineae; Maori name, Parapara. ...

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