toadflax
nounEtymology From toad + flax.
1
Any of several European plants, of the genus Linaria, having two-lipped yellow flowers.
- “What on earth did you put in that stuff?” “Bug-bane, barren-wort, penny-cress and blood-root, catchfly, toad-flax, nap-weed and wormwood,” said Catweazle.1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 177:
- One morning she had me traipsing out at the crack of dawn for prickly poppy, toadflax, spiderwort, and skeleton weed. If that doesn't sound like the makings of a witch's brew, then I'm the queen of England.2010, Clare Vanderpool, Moon Over Manifest:
2
Any of several other plants in the family Plantaginaceae.
- Derived terms
- bastard toadflax, common toadflax, ivy-leaved toadflax, Jersey toadflax, Pelisser's toadflax, yellow toadflax
- Hyponyms
- yellow toadflax