ononis spinosa

1. 1.

   Eurasian plant having loose racemes of pink or purple flowers and spiny stems and tough roots

   Synonymsrestharrowrest-harrow

   Broadersubshrub

   Part ofOnonis

Questions about ononis spinosa

What does ononis spinosa mean?

ononis spinosa means "Eurasian plant having loose racemes of pink or purple flowers and spiny stems and tough roots".

What is another word for ononis spinosa?

Close synonyms include restharrow, rest-harrow. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ononis spinosa a common word?

ononis spinosa is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.