Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as rowan-tree.

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Examples

  • It was very pleasant, very clean to walk on this tigerskin-carpet, and to watch the leaves fall down like snow; the birch looked even lighter and more graceful with its branches almost bare and the roan-tree was wonderful with its heavy scarlet cluster of berries.

    Mogens and Other Stories Anna [Translator] Grabow 1866

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