rest-harrow

A noun referring to a Eurasian plant with loose racemes of pink or purple flowers, spiny stems, and tough roots, or a European woody plant with pink flowers, unifoliate leaves, and long tough roots that spreads by underground runners.

• 🇵🇹Substantivo que designa plantas do gênero Ononis, especialmente a erva-de-restábulo (Ononis repens) e a Ononis arvensis, plantas rasteiras ou arbustivas de flores rosa ou púrpura, caules espinhosos e raízes duras, encontradas na Eurásia.

1. Eurasian plant with pink or purple flowers C2 formal scientific

   A Eurasian plant characterized by loose racemes of pink or purple flowers, spiny stems, and tough roots.

   • The rest-harrow grew abundantly along the dry, rocky hillside.
   • Its spiny stems made the rest-harrow difficult to walk through.
   • Botanists identified the plant as rest-harrow due to its distinctive pink flowers.

   🇵🇹resta-boi

2. European woody plant with pink flowers C2 formal british scientific

   A European woody plant that has pink flowers, unifoliate leaves, and long tough roots; it spreads by underground runners.

   • The rest-harrow's long roots made it a persistent weed in the field.
   • Gardeners struggled to remove the rest-harrow because of its underground runners.
   • In the wild, rest-harrow often forms dense patches through its spreading root system.

   🇵🇹resta-boi

   Sinônimos: restharrow