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row·an

(rō′ən, rou′-)

A small deciduous European tree (Sorbus aucuparia) in the rose family, having pinnately compound leaves, corymbs of white flowers, and orange-red berries.

[Of Scandinavian origin; see reudh- in Indo-European roots.]

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rowan

(ˈrəʊən; ˈraʊ-)

(Plants) another name for the (European) mountain ash

[C16: from Scandinavian; compare Norwegian rogn, raun, Old Norse reynir]

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row•an

(ˈroʊ ən, ˈraʊ-)

n.

1. the European mountain ash, Sorbus aucuparia, having pinnate leaves and clusters of bright red berries.

2. the American mountain ash, Sorbus americana.

3. the berry of either of these trees.

[1795–1805; < Old Norse *raun- in reynir, Norwegian raun]

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Noun

rowan - Eurasian tree with orange-red berrylike fruits

European mountain ash, rowan tree, Sorbus aucuparia

mountain ash - any of various trees of the genus Sorbus

rowanberry - decorative red berrylike fruit of a rowan tree

Translations

شَجَرَة لِسان العَصْفور

jeřáb

rønnebærtræ

Eberesche Vogelbeerbaum

σουρβιά

pihlakas

vörösberkenye

sorbo selvatico

šermukšnio uogašermukšnis

pīlādzis

rogn

jarabina

üvez

花楸

rowan

[ˈraʊən] N (also rowan tree) → serbal m; (= berry) → serba f

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rowan

[ˈraʊən ˈrəʊən] n (also rowan tree) (= mountain ash) → sorbier m

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rowan

n (= tree) → Eberesche f, → Vogelbeere f; rowan berry → Vogelbeere f

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rowan

[ˈraʊən] n (also rowan tree) → sorbo

rowan

(ˈrouən) , (ˈrauən) noun

(also rowan tree) a small tree that has red berries in autumn.

ˈrowan berry noun

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To be sure, I laughed over this; but it was rather tremulous laughter; and I was glad to get my bundle on my staff's end and set out over the ford and up the hill upon the farther side; till, just as I came on the green drove-road running wide through the heather, I took my last look of Kirk Essendean, the trees about the manse, and the big rowans in the kirkyard where my father and my mother lay.

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But before he had written books he was in my part of the country with a fishing-wand in his hand, and I like to think that I was the boy who met him that day by Queen Margaret's burn, where the rowans are, and busked a fly for him, and stood watching, while his lithe figure rose and fell as he cast and hinted back from the crystal waters of Noran-side.

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Rowan, Commissioner of Police, Scotland Yard: I've found the bank robber, Phileas Fogg.

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But it is the red glow of those rowans that catches the eye, their berries here already stripped by hordes of blackbirds - a harvest that has been reaped with great enthusiasm and well before the harvest moon is due to hang in our skies like a huge yellow lantern.

Rowans of course, have an important and universal part to play in folklore.

All change as summer turns to autumn; Country view

Soon both Rowans were involved in Gravel's campaign for the US House, which he lost.

Irene Rowan

The depth of Rowans work is nowhere more evident than in his various Cogs, several of which were prominent in Tim Rowan: Ceramic Sculpture, Lacoste Gallery, Concord, Massachusetts, US September, 2008.

Tim Rowan: patience and surprise

Social services officials say they can no longer afford to find pounds 663,000 a year to run the Rowans in Small Heath.