Meaning & use
Toadflax
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A flowering plant of the genus Linaria, typically having narrow leaves and yellow or purple snapdragon-like flowers.
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Wild toadflax grew along the edges of the abandoned field.
Butter-and-eggs, a common variety of toadflax, has bright yellow and orange blooms.
A note on using this word
Despite the name, toadflax is unrelated to true flax; it earned its common name from a fancied resemblance of its flowers to a toad's mouth.
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