purging flax

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purging flax - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Purging \Pur"ging\, a.
     That purges; cleansing.
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     Purging flax (Bot.), an annual European plant of the genus
        Linum (Linum catharticum); dwarf wild flax; -- so
        called from its use as a cathartic medicine.
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