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- noun Plural form of
flax .
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Examples
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None of those flaxes, grains, or starches are found along the edge, btw. coffinmouth
Reduce Or Eliminate Eggs With These Egg Substitutes | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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None of those flaxes, grains, or starches are found along the edge, btw.
Reduce Or Eliminate Eggs With These Egg Substitutes | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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The New Zealand flax gives the most perfectly soluble nitrates of any of the flaxes.
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At this mill the experience is uniform and fully established that by means of the process the drawing, i.e. spinning, quality of inferior flaxes is very considerably appreciated, enabling the spinner to use such flaxes for yarns of fineness which are unattainable by the ordinary method of spinning through hot water.
Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 C. F. Cross
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This curious remainder of the original, symmetrical structure of the flower seems to have been overlooked hitherto by the investigators of peloric toad-flaxes.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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The peloric toad-flaxes are, as a rule, found surrounded by the normal type, but without intergrading forms.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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I suppose that they are infertile with the normal toad-flaxes of their own sexual disposition, but fertile with those of the opposite constitution.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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The ancestry was known for over a period of four generations, living under the ordinary care and conditions of an experimental garden, isolated from other toad-flaxes, but freely fertilized by bees or at times by myself.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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But no such proof has been found, and the conclusion seems admissible that the mutation of toad-flaxes ordinarily, if not universally, takes place by a sudden step.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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And this discussion has the further advantage of showing the way, in which perhaps a full and constant race of peloric toad-flaxes may be obtained.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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