toadflax noun. ['tǝʊdflaks] L16.
[from TOAD + FLAX noun.]
1. (More fully yellow toadflax) a plant of the figwort family, Linaria vulgaris, resembling a snapdragon but with spurred yellow flowers and leaves like those of flax. Also, usu. with specifying word, any of various other plants, sometimes with leaves of a different shape, belonging to this genus or formerly included in it. L16.
ivy-leaved toadflax: see ivy-leaved s.v. IVY noun.

2. bastard toadflax, a small semiparasitic plant of chalk or limestone grassland, Thesium humifusum, of the sandalwood family, with linear leaves and small yellowish flowers. L16.

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