Definitions
Tree or shrub with clusters of orange-red fruit.
Word origin
Originally Scots and northern English, from Middle English ron, rone, compare also Northern English raan, ran. At first referring to its fruits, of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse reynir.
Used in a sentence
“Among the pines grew rowans hung with scarlet berries, and bilberry bushes whose leaves would be fair game for white moth caterpillars in spring.”
“He was a native of Elliott county, but he had lived for a few years in Rowan. In March, 1885, he was riding along the public road, about six miles from Morehead, when he was shot from ambush and killed.”
“… his family came to North Carolina in 1783, finally settling in Rowan, while others of the connection settled in Caldwell and Burke.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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