Restharrowとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• rest-harrow, wrest-harrow

語源

From wrest +‎ harrow, from the idea that the plant's tough roots would stop a harrow (agricultural implement used to break up soil).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈɹɛsthaɹəʊ/

名詞

restharrow (plural restharrows)

1. Any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis, especially common restharrow (Ononis repens), which has pink flowers.
   • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 238:

     Common Restharrow rises up with diverse rough, woody twigs, half a yard or a yard high, set at the joints without order [...].

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