rowan

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈɹəʊ.ən/|/ˈɹaʊ.ən/    美 /ˈɹoʊ.ən/|/ˈɹaʊ.ən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Sorbus aucuparia, the European rowan.
    — Among the pines grew rowans hung with scarlet berries, and bilberry bushes whose leaves would be fair game for white moth caterpillars in spring.
  2. Alternative form of rowen (“aftermath”). alt-of,alternative
  3. Dated form of roving (“an elongate bundle of fiber”). Scotland,alt-of,countable,dated,uncountable
  4. Alternative form of rown (“fish-eggs”). Ireland,Northern-England,Scotland,alt-of,alternative
  5. 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.
  6. wych-elm, Ulmus glabra. obsolete

词形变化

rowans plural roan alternative,archaic rowans plural rowans plural rowans plural

词汇关系

衍生词
flying rowan rowanberry

词源

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.
Also related to Norwegian Bokmål rogn, Danish røn. Ultimately related to the root of red.
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