Crossword clues for linum
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Linum \Li"num\ (l[imac]"n[u^]m), n. [L., flax.] (Bot.) A genus of herbaceous plants including the flax ( Linum usitatissimum).
Wikipedia
Linum (flax) is a genus of approximately 200 species in the flowering plant family Linaceae. They are native to temperate and subtropical regions of the world. The genus includes the common flax (L. usitatissimum), the bast fibre of which is used to produce linen and the seeds to produce linseed oil. The flowers of most species are blue or yellow, rarely red, white, or pink, and some are heterostylous. There is an average of 6 to 10 seeds per boll.
Linum species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including the Cabbage Moth, The Nutmeg, the Setaceous Hebrew Character and Coleophora striolatella, which feeds exclusively on Linum narbonense.
Linum is a village of the municipality Fehrbellin in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district of Brandenburg, Germany. It is sometimes called the "stork village" of Linum.
Usage examples of "linum".
Oenothera mollissima, 383 Linum Berendieri, nocturnal movement of cotyledons, 298 -- usitatissimum, circumnutation of stem, 203 Lolium perenne, joints affected by apogeotropism, 502 Lonicera brachypoda, hooking of the tip, 272 --, sensitiveness to light, 453 Loomis, Mr.