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ROWAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rowan mean?
• ROWAN (noun)
The noun ROWAN has 1 sense:
1. Eurasian tree with orange-red berrylike fruits
Familiarity information: ROWAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Eurasian tree with orange-red berrylike fruits
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
European mountain ash; rowan; rowan tree; Sorbus aucuparia
Hypernyms ("rowan" is a kind of...):
mountain ash (any of various trees of the genus Sorbus)
Meronyms (parts of "rowan"):
rowanberry (decorative red berrylike fruit of a rowan tree)
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