1. Eurasian plant having loose racemes of pink or purple flowers and spiny stems and tough roots
   "The spiny restharrow is common in dry grasslands";
   - rest-harrow, Ononis spinosa
    
2. European woody plant having pink flowers and unifoliate leaves and long tough roots; spreads by underground runners
   "Restharrow was historically known to impede horse-drawn ploughs";
   - rest-harrow, Ononis repens

Derived forms: rest-harrows, restharrows

Type of: subshrub, suffrutex

Part of: genus Ononis, Ononis

Encyclopedia: Restharrow