'Purging flax' definitions:
Definition of 'Purging flax'
From: GCIDE
- Purging \Pur"ging\, a. That purges; cleansing. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]