Resembling flax in appearance, structure, or characteristics.
Compound of 'flax' and 'like' (from Old English gelīc, meaning similar). A productive English formation for describing similarity.
Botanists and farmers used 'flaxlike' to identify useful wild plants that could substitute for cultivated flax in emergencies—knowledge that could mean survival during crop failures.
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