Flax
[flæks]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) plant of the genus Linum that is cultivated for its seeds and for the fibers of its stem.
(noun.) fiber of the flax plant that is made into thread and woven into linen fabric.
巴尔德手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A plant of the genus Linum, esp. the L. usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flowers. The fiber of the bark is used for making thread and cloth, called linen, cambric, lawn, lace, etc. Linseed oil is expressed from the seed.
(n.) The skin or fibrous part of the flax plant, when broken and cleaned by hatcheling or combing.
編輯:陌莉
解釋/意思:
n. the fibres of the plant Linum which are woven into linen cloth: the flax-plant.—ns. Flax′-comb a toothed instrument or heckle for cleaning the fibres of flax; Flax′-dress′er one who prepares flax for the spinner by the successive processes of rippling retting grassing breaking and scutching.—adj. Flax′en made of or resembling flax: fair long and flowing.—ns. Flax′-mill a mill for working flax into linen; Flax′-seed linseed; Flax′-wench a female who spins flax.—adj. Flax′y like flax: of a light colour.—New Zealand flax a valuable fibre quite different from common flax obtained from the leaf of Phormium tenax the flax lily or flax bush.
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娱乐性解釋/意思：
To see flax in a dream, prosperous enterprises are denoted.
校對:维多利亚
例句/造句/用法:
- It does not, however, like the American bounty, extend to the importation of undressed flax. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Later he took English patents on a machine for spinning flax, and on a new device for twisting hemp rope. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- It covered carding, drawing, and roving machines for use in preparing silk, cotton, flax, and wool for spinning. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Foreign materials are, upon this account, sometimes allowed to be imported duty-free; spanish wool, for example, flax, and raw linen yarn. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Harvesters for grass and grain have been supplemented by Corn, Cotton, Potato and Flax Harvesters. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The employer of the flax dressers would, in selling his flax, require an additional five per cent. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Flax, wool, silk, and cotton have been supplemented with the fibres of metal, of glass, of cocoanut, pine needles, ramie, wood-pulp, and of many other plants, leaves and grasses. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The price of flax resolves itself into the same three parts as that of corn. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- If, in the linen manufacture, for example, the wages of the different working people, the flax-dressers, the spinners, the weavers, etc. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- In the price of linen we must add to this price the wages of the flax-dresser, of the spinner, of the weaver, of the bleacher, etc. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
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