## Meanings
1. A plant with blue flowers, grown for its seeds and for the fibers used to make linen.
2. The fibers of the flax plant, woven into linen cloth.

## Examples
- The fields of flax turned the hillside blue.
- The thread was spun from flax.

## Derived Forms
- earthflax
- flax-dresser
- flax-stick
- flaxbush
- flaxcomb
- flaxen
- flaxlike
- flaxseed
- flaxweed
- flaxwort
- flaxy
- toadflax

## Related Forms
- linen
- tow

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: flax
- Root: fleax
- Root: *flahsą
- Root: *pleḱ-

## Etymology
From Middle English flax, from Old English fleax, from Proto-Germanic *flahsą, from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- (“to plait”). Cognate with Old Frisian flax, Dutch vlas, Old High German flahs (German Flachs); the Northern Germanic (and most likely the Gothic too) stem is different.

## AI Etymology
Flax comes from Middle English flax, from Old English fleax, from Proto-Germanic *flahsą, from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- (“to plait”). Cognate with Old Frisian flax, Dutch vlas, Old High German flahs (German Flachs); the Northern Germanic (and most likely the Gothic too) stem is different. In current use, the main senses are “A plant with blue flowers, grown for its seeds and for the fibers used to make linen” and “The fibers of the flax plant, woven into linen cloth”.

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- Plants & Agriculture

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