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.
雙語例句
1. Flax is used for making linen.
亞麻用來織亞麻布.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
2. The workers wrer teasing flax.
工人們正在梳理亞麻.
來自辭典例句
3. Flax does well after wheat.
收過小麥以后,亞麻長得不錯.
來自辭典例句
4. Just as darkness was falling , in flew the black thing with the five skeins of flax.
天剛剛黑, 那黑東西就飛進來了,并帶來了紡好的五絞線.
來自辭典例句
5. Trichophyton mentagrophytes activity of three different bast fibers - hemp, flax and ramie fibers.