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say it: flaks
flax is a noun meaning "fiber of the flax plant that is made into thread and woven into linen fabric". It carries 2 recorded senses.
fiber of the flax plant that is made into thread and woven into linen fabric
Forms marked are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for flax come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.