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Definition of Linum
1. Noun. A herbaceous plant genus of the family Linaceae with small sessile leaves.
Generic synonyms: Plant Genus
Group relationships: Family Linaceae, Flax Family, Linaceae
Member holonyms: Flax
Definition of Linum
1. n. A genus of herbaceous plants including the flax (Linum usitatissimum).
Definition of Linum
1. a plant of the flax family [n -S]
Medical Definition of Linum
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Linum
Literary usage of Linum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Materia Medica and Pharmacology: Comprising All Organic and by David Marvel Reynolds Culbreth (1906)
"linum. linum. LINSEED (FLAXSEED). usitatissimum, Linné. ... seed- linum l r™
Habitat. C. Asia, Egypt, S. Europe, cultivated in Russia, Egypt, India, ..."
2. Report (1904)
"The experiments tlms far performed have been to determine the conditions governing
the development of hypocotyl buds on linum. Uninjured plants were first ..."
3. The Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed: In which the Most by William Curtis (1797)
"Kew, 388. L'Herit. Slirp. nov. torn. 2. tab. 3. linum africanum foliis ...
The linum africanum is a very neat and pretty ..."
4. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed by John Sims (1808)
"[ iioo 3 LiNUM TRIGYNUM. THREE-STYLED FLAX. ... would lead us to doubt if it be
a real linum ; but we bave had no opportunity of examining the fruit, ..."
5. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1896)
"The story of the cultivation of linum is so exceedingly ancient that no one knows
its ... And yet, we believe, linum usitatissimum, which has been so long ..."
6. A Class-book of Botany: Designed for Colleges, Academies, and Other by Alphonso Wood (1854)
"In the flax (linum) the flower is built upon the normal plan, ... Plan of flowers;
1, «Ли regular and symmetrical flower, a» the flax (linum); 2, ..."
7. The Ladies' Flower-garden of Ornamental Perennials by Loudon (Jane) (1843)
"The word linum is from the Celtic word for thread, in allusion to the use made
of the fibres of the annual species, ..."
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