Definition of "flax" []

• A widely cultivated plant, Linum usitatissimum, having pale blue flowers, seeds that yield linseed oil, and slender stems from which a textile fiber is obtained. (noun)
• The fine, light-colored textile fiber obtained from this plant. (noun)
• Any of various other plants of the genus Linum or of similar or related genera. (noun)
• A pale grayish yellow. (noun)

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• ""The evidence for some kind of massive programmed rearrangement upon environmental induction in flax is unequivocal," he writes, "but inheritance of acquired changes has been an anathema to evolutionary biologists ever since Darwin's time.""
• "Ms. Moskowitz has published recipes in which, in lieu of eggs, flax seeds are ground into meal, then blended with water to form what she calls "flax goop.""
• "She said originally, in 1999, her coach gave her what he described as flax seed oil."