flax family

1. 1.

   a widely distributed family of plants

   SynonymsLinaceaefamily Linaceae

   Broaderdicot family

Questions about flax family

What does flax family mean?

flax family means "a widely distributed family of plants".

What is another word for flax family?

Close synonyms include Linaceae, family Linaceae. 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 flax family a common word?

flax family 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.