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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
flax
flax [flax flaxes] BrE [flæks] NAmE [flæks] noun uncountable
1. a plant with blue flowers, grown for its ↑stem that is used to make thread and its seeds that are used to make ↑linseed oil
2. threads from the ↑stem of the flax plant, used to make ↑linen
Word Origin:
Old English flæx, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch vlas and German Flachs, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin plectere and Greek plekein ‘to plait, twist’.
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