devil's flax

Questions about devil's flax

What does devil's flax mean?

devil's flax means "common European perennial having showy yellow and orange flowers; a naturalized weed in North America".

What is another word for devil's flax?

Close synonyms include toadflax, butter-and-eggs, wild snapdragon, Linaria vulgaris. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is devil's flax a common word?

devil's flax is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.