Flaxen

Flaxen generally describes things that are made of flax, or have the color of unspun dressed flax — a pale yellowish-gray. Uses include:

• Flaxen, a variant of the blonde human hair color
• Flaxen gene, a gene that causes light-colored manes and tails in chestnut-colored horses
• Flaxen elimia, a common name for a variety of Pleurocera catenaria, a species of freshwater snail