rest-harrow

Questions about rest-harrow

What does rest-harrow mean?

rest-harrow means "Eurasian plant having loose racemes of pink or purple flowers and spiny stems and tough roots". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rest-harrow?

rest-harrow has 3 syllables and divides as res-t-har-row under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for rest-harrow?

Close synonyms include restharrow, Ononis spinosa, restharrow, Ononis repens. 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 rest-harrow a common word?

rest-harrow is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.