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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rowan
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Outside, some kids, browned off with the phone-booth, had snapped a sapling rowan in half.
▪ The poor rowan outside is back in leaf but it is still bitterly cold.
▪ The reddening turned the mistletoe into rowan.
▪ When the leaves turn colour and the berry clusters are ripe, the rowan is a princely sight.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rowan

Rowan \Row"an\, n. Rowan tree.

Rowan barry, a barry of the rowan tree.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
rowan

"mountain ash," 1804, from rowan-tree, rountree (1540s), northern English and Scottish, from a Scandinavian source (compare Old Norse reynir, Swedish Ronn "the rowan"), ultimately from the root of red, in reference to the berries.\n\nThere were those in this neighbourhood, long after the beginning of the present century, who believed that a slip of rowan tree carried on their person dispelled glamour, and rendered nugatory all the powers of sorcery and witchcraft.

[Alexander Laing, "Lindores Abbey and the Burgh of Newburgh," Edinburgh, 1876]

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Wiktionary
rowan

n. 1 ''Sorbus aucuparia'', the European rowan. 2 Any of various small deciduous trees or shrubs of genus ''Sorbus'', belonging to the rose family, with pinnate leaves, corymbs of white flowers, and usually with orange-red berries.

WordNet
rowan

n. Eurasian tree with orange-red berrylike fruits [syn: rowan tree, European mountain ash, Sorbus aucuparia]

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Rowan, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000): 218
Housing Units (2000): 103
Land area (2000): 0.562681 sq. miles (1.457338 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.562681 sq. miles (1.457338 sq. km)
FIPS code: 69015
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 42.740145 N, 93.551047 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 50470
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Rowan -- U.S. County in Kentucky
Population (2000): 22094
Housing Units (2000): 8985
Land area (2000): 280.822204 sq. miles (727.326139 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 5.428726 sq. miles (14.060336 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 286.250930 sq. miles (741.386475 sq. km)
Located within: Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
Location: 38.187102 N, 83.433917 W
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Rowan, KY
Rowan County
Rowan County, KY
Rowan -- U.S. County in North Carolina
Population (2000): 130340
Housing Units (2000): 53980
Land area (2000): 511.313740 sq. miles (1324.296450 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 12.545509 sq. miles (32.492719 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 523.859249 sq. miles (1356.789169 sq. km)
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 35.617342 N, 80.515502 W
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Rowan, NC
Rowan County
Rowan County, NC
Wikipedia
Rowan

The rowans or mountain-ashes are shrubs or trees in the genus Sorbus of the rose family Rosaceae. They are native throughout the cool temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with the highest species diversity in the mountains of western China and the Himalaya, where numerous apomictic microspecies occur. The name rowan was originally applied to the species Sorbus aucuparia and is also used for other species in the Sorbus subgenus Sorbus. Rowans are unrelated to the true ash trees, which belong to the genus Fraxinus, family Oleaceae, though their leaves are superficially similar.

Formerly, when a wider variety of fruits were commonly eaten in Europe and North America, Sorbus was a domestically used fruit throughout these regions. It is still used in some countries, but Sorbus domestica, for example, is now all but extinct in Britain, where it was traditionally revered. Natural hybrids, often including Sorbus aucuparia and the whitebeam, Sorbus aria, give rise to many endemic variants in the UK.

Rowan (disambiguation)

Rowans are a genus (or subgenus) of deciduous trees in family Rosaceae that are notable for their red berries.

Rowan may also refer to:

Rowan (name)

Rowan is an Irish given name and surname. Variants of the name include Roan, Ruadhán ( Irish), Ruadh (Irish). The name comes from the Irish surname Ó Ruadháin. It is also an Arabic feminine name referring to a river in Paradise.

Usage examples of "rowan".

Early in their coaching careers, Williams and Bunting had been colleagues at Rowan University, a Division III school in New Jersey.

The thatched roofs of the cottage and outbuildings looked out from among spreading rowans bubbling with coralline berries, from whose boughs small bells of bronze depended.

Kentigern several turns back, the dukedom had passed to Rowan, an unproven and unimpressive youth.

They see boy, we will go to house - a sigh said to Rowan, exhalando of lightening and with the sensation of to have escapado of a vile death -.

It would have to be a greater death for Mephistis, since Hoon had no intention of yielding Rowan to him once he caught her.

Rowan Hurn and Samel Crawe had joined the others in front of the fire, so that the entire Village Council was there.

In the common room Rowan Hurn and Samel Crawe had joined the others in front of the fire, so that the entire Village Council was there.

The amenities for young people included a carousel which enchanted the Rowan: horses and bills and lionets and catarons and two amazing sea creatures that even the attendant could not identify.

A fitting successor to her paternal grandfathers, Rowans the Rambunctious, Rampaging, and Reckless respectively, she would have made King Roari a fine son.

Michelle Herder, Rowan Littell, Catherine McCubbin, Curtis Mitchell, Fillard Rhyne, Bill Scherer, Blake Scherer, and Karen Swanberg.

John Rowan Littell, Curtis Mitchell, Fillard Rhyne, Bill Scherer, and Karen Swanberg.

Rowan it saw that woman, it saw his erguidos sines and their face of black eyes, that they shone like carbones ignited, had the sensation with which its body burned.

Their sines remained raised and Rowan, of you brush, was placed astride on its hips.

At the far end however Mowett and Rowan, the man who had replaced the lubberly Somers, seemed to be in disagreement, strong and even acrimonious disagreement.

And in the end a Wessener must sit once more on the rowan throne atop Taplin Hill.