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Any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis, especially common restharrow (Ononis repens), which has pink flowers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
European woody plant having pink flowers and unifoliate leaves and long tough roots; spreads by underground runners
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: rest-harrow, Ononis repens
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: subshrub, suffrutex
Eurasian plant having loose racemes of pink or purple flowers and spiny stems and tough roots
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: rest-harrow, Ononis spinosa
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: subshrub, suffrutex
From wrest + harrow, from the idea that the plant's tough roots would stop a harrow (agricultural implement used to break up soil).
Across languages
Translations
38 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Albanian:
athje
— any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis
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Arabic:
شُبْرُق
(šubruq)
— any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis
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Armenian:
եզնարգել
(eznargel)
— any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis
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Bulgarian:
гръмотръ́н
(grǎmotrǎ́n)
— any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis
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Catalan:
gavó
— any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis
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Czech:
jehlice
— any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis
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Dutch:
stalkruid
— any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis
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Finnish:
orakko
— any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis
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Finnish:
rento-orakko
— any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis
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French:
bugrane
— any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis
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German:
Hauhechel
— any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis
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Ancient Greek:
ὄνωνις
(ónōnis)
— any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis
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Hungarian:
iglice
— any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis
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Italian:
ononide
— any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis
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Macedonian:
грмотрн
(grmotrn)
— any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis
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Macedonian:
зајачки трн
(zajački trn)
— any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis
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Middle English:
cammok
— any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis
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Polish:
wilżyna
— any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis
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Romanian:
osul-iepurelui
— any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis
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Russian:
ста́льник
(stálʹnik)
— any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis
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Scottish Gaelic:
sreang-bogha
— any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis
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Scottish Gaelic:
sreang-thrian
— any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis
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Serbo-Croatian:
зечји трн
— any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis
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Serbo-Croatian:
гдадиш
— any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis
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Serbo-Croatian:
грмотрн
— any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis
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Serbo-Croatian:
гладишика
— any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis
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Serbo-Croatian:
гладушац
— any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis
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Serbo-Croatian:
zečji trn
— any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis
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Serbo-Croatian:
gladiš
— any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis
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Serbo-Croatian:
grmotrn
— any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis
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Serbo-Croatian:
gladišika
— any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis
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Serbo-Croatian:
gladušac
— any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis
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Slovak:
ihlica
— any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis
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Slovene:
gladež
— any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis
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Upper Sorbian:
tryčk
— any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis
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Turkish:
kayışkıran
— any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis
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Ottoman Turkish:
قایش قیران
(kayış kıran)
— any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis
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Ukrainian:
вовчу́г
(vovčúh)
— any of various species of small shrubs making up the genus Ononis