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n. - European woody plant having pink flowers and unifoliate leaves and long tough roots; Eurasian plant having loose racemes of pink or purple flowers and spiny stems and tough roots.

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  • From this setting issue spirals of white-belled convolvulus, twigs of pink rest-harrow mingled with
  • He lay staring at the grass, covered with tiny blossoms of self-heal and rest-harrow: behind and a hundred feet below him the sea swirled, its deep peacock hue patterned...
  • Shrubs: busk and adjectival bosky; rest-harrow, rone, and Scand whin.
  • I saw rest-harrow which has a root like whipcord, and the flat thistle which thrives in dust.
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