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flax

[flaks] / flæks /








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We will never know if the flax fields took off and Shatz’s heirs prospered.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025

The Prince and Princess of Wales later visited Mallon Farm in Cookstown, a flax farm which had previously been a dairy farm.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2025

The specific brand of noncracker crackers that she recommends frequently are made of flax seeds, and are called, unfortunately, Flackers.

From Slate ● May 10, 2025

Examples of food provided in the breast cancer clinical trial included peanut soba noodles, steel cut oatmeal, banana flax muffins, sweet potato enchiladas, and Mediterranean white bean soup.

From Science Daily ● May 22, 2024

I closed my eyes and pictured the flax field come fall.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

The New Zealand flax gives the most perfectly soluble nitrates of any of the flaxes.

From Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise by P. Gerald (Percy Gerald) Sanford

The quotations for the various kinds of flaxes are made with one or other special mark termed a base mark; this usually, but not necessarily, indicates the lowest quality.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various

The Hoffs flaxes are reckoned in a similar way.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various

The marks in the Crown flaxes have the following signification:— K means Crown and is usually the base mark.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various

Sometimes other proportions obtain, while it is not unusual to have quotations for flaxes containing four different kinds.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various




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