rowan
IPA: rˈoʊʌn
noun
- Sorbus aucuparia, the European rowan.
- 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.
- (obsolete) wych-elm, Ulmus glabra.
- A surname from Irish.
- A male given name from Irish.
- A unisex given name from English of modern usage, often associated with the rowan tree.
- Alternative form of rowen (“aftermath”) [A second crop of hay; aftermath.]
- (Scotland) dated form of roving (“an elongate bundle of fiber”). [A long and narrow bundle of fibre, usually used to spin woollen yarn or in felting.]
- (archaic, Northern England, Scotland, Ireland) Alternative form of rown (“fish-eggs”)
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Examples of "rowan" in Sentences
- The Lament for the Rowan Tree 5.
- Rowan has said about the project.
- Rowan and the Keeper of the Crystal.
- A cluster of ripening rowan berries.
- Rowan directed the brick making himself.
- Particularly the part at the end with Rowan.
- The caterpillars feed on hawthorn and rowan.
- Rip Rowan is not a recognized authority either.
- Rowan was a bachelor and an evangelical Anglican.
- Bregalad guarded rowan trees, and as such he resembled a rowan himself.