Read full poem →Awns the last gleaner overstept,
Or shrivelled flax, whose flower is blue
A single season, never two;
Dictionary Entry
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.
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Common Phrases
. flaxseed flaxplant flaxflax smoking
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Poetry examples for “flax”
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Read full poem →And worthy of acceptation. Fire is bright,
Let temple burn, or flax; an equal light
Leaps in the flame from cedar-plank or weed:
Read full poem →Whirred the wheels, that into rigging
Spun the shining flax!
Read full poem →Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax,
Her cheeks like the dawn of day,
Read full poem →Possessed the land which rendered to their toil
Hay, corn, roots, hemp, flax, apples, wool and wood.
Each of these landlords walked amidst his farm,
Read full poem →overstrained his physique. In 1771 the family move to Lochlea, and Burns
went to the neighboring town of Irvine to learn flax-dressing. The only
result of this experiment, however, was the formation of an acquaintance
Read full poem →of tops to roots in certain plants were not appreciably altered by increasing
the nitrate concentration of the solution. One of these plants was flax.
Experiment IV was conducted, therefore, with flax to get more data on this