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toadflax
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun toadflax has 1 sense
- toadflax(n = noun.plant) butter-and-eggs, devil's flax, linaria vulgaris, wild snapdragon - common European perennial having showy yellow and orange flowers; a naturalized weed in North America; Array is a kind of flower
is a member of genus linaria, linaria
has particulars: blue toadflax, linaria canadensis, old-field toadflax
CIDE DICTIONARY
toadflax, n.
An herb (Linaria vulgaris ) of the Figwort family, having narrow leaves and showy orange and yellow flowers; -- called also butter and eggs , flaxweed , and ramsted . [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
toadflax, n.
1 any plant of the genus Linaria or Chaenorrhinum, with flaxlike leaves and spurred yellow or purple flowers .
2 a related plant, Cymbalaria muralis, with lilac flowers and ivy-shaped leaves.
1 any plant of the genus Linaria or Chaenorrhinum, with flaxlike leaves and spurred yellow or purple flowers .
2 a related plant, Cymbalaria muralis, with lilac flowers and ivy-shaped leaves.
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