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Rest-harrow   /rɛst-hˈæroʊ/   Listen
Rest-harrow

noun
1.
Eurasian plant having loose racemes of pink or purple flowers and spiny stems and tough roots.  Synonyms: Ononis spinosa, restharrow.
2.
European woody plant having pink flowers and unifoliate leaves and long tough roots; spreads by underground runners.  Synonyms: Ononis repens, restharrow.






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"Rest-harrow" Quotes from Famous Books



... make a hearty meal. While returning slowly towards the wood through the soft, yielding snow that rendered her journey difficult and tiresome, she unexpectedly discovered, near the hedge beyond the furrows, a tasty leaf or two of the rest-harrow, together with a few yellow sprouts of young grass where a stone had been kicked aside by a passing sheep—these were the tit-bits ...
— Creatures of the Night - A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain • Alfred W. Rees



Words linked to "Rest-harrow" :   Ononis spinosa, genus Ononis, subshrub, suffrutex, restharrow, Ononis repens, Ononis



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