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ˈflax-seed, ˈflaxseed
1. a. The seed of flax, linseed.
1562Act 5 Eliz. c. 5. §29 One Rood..is limited to be sown with Linseed otherwise Flaxseed or Hempseed. 16..L. Delaware in Child Ballads VII. 314 I'll hie me To Lincolnshire, To sow hemp-seed and flax-seed. 1737Berkeley Let. Wks. 1871 IV. 248 It is hoped your flax-seed will come in time. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Flax-seed, the boll of flax, generally termed linseed.
b. The plant Radiola Millegrana, the seed-pods of which are similar to those of the flax plant; cf. allseed c.
1848C. A. Johns Week at Lizard 290 Radiola Millegrana, Flax-seed, grows in similar situations.
2. A name given to the pupa of the Hessian fly from its resemblance to a flax-seed. U.S.
1886Times 18 Aug. 10/6 Pupæ..resembling small and rather elongated flax seeds. On this account they are called ‘flax seeds’ in America. 1888Riverside Nat. Hist. II. 410 The larvæ [of the Hessian fly] assume the pupa state, called the flaxseed stage.
3. attrib. and Comb. (sense 1), as flax-seed mill, flax-seed oil, flax-seed tea. flaxseed ore = dyestone ore: see dyestone.
1831J. Davies Manual. Mat. Med. 71 Flaxseed oil. 1874Knight Dict. Mech. I. 881/2 Flax-seed Mill, one for grinding flax-seed for the more ready abstraction of the oil. 1904E. Glasgow Deliverance 101 Polly makes her hot flaxseed tea every two hours. 1922Joyce Ulysses 89 Only measles. Flaxseed tea. Scarlatina influenza epidemics. |