flax
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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 royal couple were told by Helen Keys and Charlie Mallon about the sustainable methods being used to grow flax to create linen.
From BBC • Oct. 14, 2025
They look like a bunch of flax seeds glued together and taste like dense particleboard squares dipped in apple cider vinegar.
From Slate • May 10, 2025
But a host of other row crops are also used as a source of oils, including cotton, corn, safflower, peanut and flax.
From Salon • Jul. 29, 2024
One-third of all Linear B tablets from the palace of Knossos are accountants’ records of sheep and wool, while an inordinate proportion of writing at the palace of Pylos consists of records of flax.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
