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.
例文
1. Flax is used for Making linen.
亜麻は亜麻を織るために使用される。
2.The workers wrer teasing flax .
労働者たちが亜麻を整理している。
3. Flax does well after wheat.
小麦を収穫した後、亜麻はよく育った。
4.Just as darkness was falling,in flew the black thing with the five skeins of flax .
暗くなったとたん、黒いものが飛び込んできて、紡いだ五撚糸を持ってきた。
5.Trichophyton mentagrophytes activity of three different bast fibers-hemp, flax and ramie fibers.