flax-stick
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.04 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The flowering stem of the New Zealand flax (Phormium tenax or Phormium cookianum).
New Zealand usage
Example Sentences
- "Rafts, or canoes, or “catamarans,” are still occasionally improvised by travellers or explorers in primitive parts of New Zealand, e.g. by Haast, who reports constructing “catamarans” of dead trees when flax-sticks were not obtainable."
- ""I always thought Australia was all good country," mused the driver—a flax-stick."
Usage
Inflected Forms
flax-sticks (plural)
flax stick (alternative)