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toad-flax|ˈtəʊdflæks|
[f. toad n. + flax, from the flax-like appearance of the foliage.]
A popular name of the European plant Linaria vulgaris; hence extended as a generic name to other species of Linaria, as Ivy-leaved Toad-flax, L. Cymbalaria, Purple T., L. purpurea. bastard toad-flax, a name for Thesium linophyllum, and the American genus Comandra.
1578Lyte Dodoens i. liv. 79 Stanworte, wilde flaxe, or Tode flax, hath small, slender, blackish stalkes. 1630Drayton Muses' Elysium iii. Wks. (1748) 448/1 By toad⁓flax which your nose may taste, If you have a mind to cast. 1776Lee Bot. 353/1 Toad Flax, Antirrhinum. 1866Treas. Bot., Toadflax. Bastard, Thesium linophyllum; also an American name for Comandra. 1868J. T. Burgess Eng. Wild Flowers 211 The ‘butter-and-eggs’ of the country folk—the Yellow Toadflax. 1879Geo. Eliot Theo. Such ii. 50 A crumbling bit of wall where the delicate ivy-leaved toad-flax hangs its light branches. 1893Couch Delect. Duchy 21 A round stone wall, over which the toad-flax spread in a tangle. |