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Flaxseed

Flaxseed \Flax"seed`\, n. The seed of the flax; linseed.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
flaxseed

also flax-seed, 1560s, from flax + seed (n.).

Wiktionary
flaxseed

n. The seed of the flax plant; a source of linseed oil

WordNet
flaxseed

n. the seed of flax used as a source of oil [syn: linseed]

Usage examples of "flaxseed".

Then they fetched the nine bushels of flaxseed which Yspadaden Penkawr had required of Kilwich, and they brought the full measure, without lacking any, save one flaxseed, and that the lame pismire brought in before night.

A kind of timothy, the seed of which branches from the main stalk and is more like a flaxseed than that of timothy.

Nevyn rubbed the lad's lips repeatedly with flaxseed meal in lard to soothe them.

At last the rivets were closed by lever-operated presses, and the end product was tumbled in boxes of sand to polish it, then washed and wiped down with flaxseed oil and rolled up for packing and transport.

The men were raving: mouths spewing hate and frustration, their beards glistening with the flaxseed oil from the jars the children had thrown .

The men were raving mouths spewing hate and frustration, their beards glistening with the flaxseed oil from the jars the children had thrown .