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单词 fairy lint
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fairy lint
fairy lint n. now rare fairy flax, Linum catharticum. [Compare Scottish Gaelic lìon nam ban-sìth , lit. ‘flax of the fairy women’ (1883 or earlier; compare banshee n.), Welsh llin y tylwyth teg , lit. ‘flax of the fair kinsfolk’ (1813), although these may also be formed after English fairy flax n.]
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > rosaceous plants > [noun] > linum or fairy-flax
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mountain flax1648
rupturewort1670
purging flax1684
fairy flax1737
mountain flax1841
purge flax1853
fairy lint1859
dwarf-flax1863
linum1867
1859 M. A. Denham Denham Tracts; N. of Eng. 5 The purging flax—Linum catharticum. The same with Fairy-lint.
1951 S. H. Bell December Bride ii. iii. 118 Over the wall of the rath between the roots of the thorns the white blossomed fairy lint broke in foam as though a sea of flowers tossed outside.
1986 C. McGlinchey et al. Last of Name x. 87 They gathered seven stalks of sidhe lint or fairy lint.
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