Seeds or fibers that fall from flax plants during harvest, or a type of seed pearl.
Compound of 'flax' and 'drop' (from Old English dropa, meaning a small quantity that falls). The term literally describes what drops from flax during processing.
Medieval textile workers collected flaxdrops as valuable byproducts—nothing was wasted in pre-industrial economies, and even fallen seeds were used for oil production or animal feed.
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