Old English fleax "flax plant; cloth made with flax, linen," from Proto-Germanic *flakhsan (cognates: Old Frisian flax, Middle Dutch and Dutch vlas, Old Saxon flas, Old High German flahs, German Flachs), probably from Proto-Germanic base *fleh- "to plait," corresponding to PIE *plek- "to weave, to plait" (see ply (v.1)). But some connect it with PIE *pleik- (see flay) from the notion of "stripping" fiber to prepare it.
实用例句
1. Flax is used for making linen.
亚麻用来织亚麻布.
来自《简明英汉词典》
2. The workers wrer teasing flax.
工人们正在梳理亚麻.
来自辞典例句
3. Flax does well after wheat.
收过小麦以后,亚麻长得不错.
来自辞典例句
4. Just as darkness was falling , in flew the black thing with the five skeins of flax.
天刚刚黑, 那黑东西就飞进来了,并带来了纺好的五绞线.
来自辞典例句
5. Trichophyton mentagrophytes activity of three different bast fibers - hemp, flax and ramie fibers.