restharrow

Other forms of restharrow

plural

restharrows·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about restharrow

What does restharrow mean?

restharrow 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 restharrow?

restharrow has 3 syllables: res-thar-row. The stress falls on "res".

What is another word for restharrow?

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

restharrow 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.