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rowan
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun rowan has 1 sense
- rowan(n = noun.plant) european mountain ash, rowan tree, sorbus aucuparia - Eurasian tree with orange-red berrylike fruits; Array is a kind of mountain ash
has parts: rowanberry
OXFORD DICTIONARY
rowan, n. (in full rowan-tree)
1 Sc. & N.Engl. the mountain ash.
2 US a similar tree, Sorbus americana, native to America.
3 (in full rowan-berry) the scarlet berry of either of these trees.
1 Sc. & N.Engl. the mountain ash.
2 US a similar tree, Sorbus americana, native to America.
3 (in full rowan-berry) the scarlet berry of either of these trees.
Etymology
Scand., corresp. to Norw. rogn, raun, Icel. reynir
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