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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
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.
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.
Use toadflax when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Toadflax means Any of several European plants, of the genus Linaria, having two-lipped yellow flowers..
Common synonyms include linaria, butter-and-eggs, linaria vulgaris, wild snapdragon.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
“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.
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