rowan

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Ungrazed heather does eventually become overgrown and 'senile', but this leads to the opening up of patches of ground that become colonised by other plant and then tree species, eventually leading to more natural communities, such as rowan, ash and acid oak woodlands.

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  1. noun A small deciduous European tree (Sorbus aucuparia) of the rose family, having pinnately compound leaves, corymbs of white flowers, and orange-red berries.

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  • The result has been a slow but progressive expansion of natural copsewood, chiefly composed of the rowan-tree, but with many ashes and birches intermixed. —  MY STRANGE PETS AND Other Memories of Country Life
  • Above these the hobbits saw thickets of birch and rowan, and beyond them dark climbing pinewoods. —  The Lord of the Rings
  • The rowan was a Celtic and Greek symbol of power over death. —  The Many-Coloured Land -- Julian May
  • Ungrazed heather does eventually become overgrown and 'senile', but this leads to the opening up of patches of ground that become colonised by other plant and then tree species, eventually leading to more natural communities, such as rowan, ash and acid oak woodlands. —  Life and style | guardian.co.uk
  • Send your problems to Rowan - rowan. pelling@dailymail.co.uk —  Home | Mail Online
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  1. Of Scandinavian origin; see reudh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also roan, roun; from Old Swedish röun, runn, Swedish röun = Danish rön = Icelandic reynir, the service, sorb, mountain-ash; cf. Latin ornus, the mountain-ash.
 

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