flax
flax — 名詞
1. A tall plant with delicate blue flowers that people grow for two main purposes:
亞麻
植物或其纖維
A tall plant with delicate blue flowers that people grow for two main purposes: the fibres in its stems are used to make linen cloth and strong thread, while its seeds can be eaten or pressed for oil. The word may also refer to the fibre or thread obtained from this plant.
The farmer's field was a sea of blue when the flax was in flower.
農夫的田裡開滿了藍色的亞麻花，整片田野彷彿一片藍色的海洋。
collocation: flax in flower / agricultural field context
The linen shirt on the rack was labelled '100% flax fibre'.
架子上那件亞麻襯衫的標籤上寫著「100% 亞麻纖維」。
Kwame sprinkled flax seeds over his yoghurt every morning for extra fibre.
Kwame 每天早上在優格上撒一湯匙亞麻籽，以增加膳食纖維。
collocation: flax seeds as food ingredient
At the heritage mill, workers combed flax stems into long, silky fibres ready for spinning.
在傳統磨坊裡，工人將亞麻莖梳理成細長柔軟的纖維，準備紡紗。
processing: flax stems → fibres → spinning
In cold climates, flax plants tend to produce finer fibres than those in warm regions.
在寒冷氣候中，亞麻產出的纖維通常比溫暖地區的更細。
- flax seeds
- flax fibre
- flax plant
- flax field
- flax stems
- grow flax
- harvest flax
- linen from flax
- flax in flower
用法筆記
Context determines whether 'flax' refers to the living crop or the fibre obtained from its stem. You can specify 'flax plant', 'flax fibre', or 'flax thread' when the meaning needs to be clear.