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Definition of rowan in English: rowan(also rowan tree) noun ˈraʊənˈrəʊən 1A small deciduous tree of the rose family, with compound leaves, white flowers, and red berries. 欧洲花楸;美洲花楸。比较 MOUNTAIN ASH Genus Sorbus, family Rosaceae: several species, in particular the European S. aucuparia, which is associated with much folklore Compare with mountain ash Example sentencesExamples - More native trees will be encouraged such as ash, alder, oak and rowan along streams and in the north west of the wood near Over Silton.
- The Croft garden doesn't have many large trees from which we can gather more than a barrow or two of leaves, but of those we do have - rowan and Norway maple - put on a colourful show before leaf-fall.
- Pollen studies by scientists have revealed that both of the island chains were once covered in dense woodlands of birch, alder, willow, hazel, rowan and aspen.
- Outside the kitchen window is a rowan tree I planted about ten years ago.
- Half of the field will be planted with native ash, along with cherry, rowan and hazel trees, sessile oaks and downy birches.
- The steeper slopes and cliffs of Augill support a mixed woodland of ash, birch and rowan with an interesting ground flora including species such as bluebell, sanicle and wood avens.
- The National Trust was awarded £39,000 from the Forestry Commission to rebuild the wall and to plant 5,000 new trees, including oak, ash, rowan and hazel.
- There is also a plentiful growth of rowan and willow, particularly over the past half dozen years.
- It also makes sense, if you are planting new trees, to grow small trees like rowan, magnolia or cherry close to the house, saving large trees like oak, beech and lime for further away.
- Australians call these mountain ash, but they are unrelated to the rowan and mountain ash of Europe and North America.
- Plant berry-bearing plants in your garden, such as hawthorn, rowan, holly, cotoneaster and berberis.
- Back on the winding road to Lancaster, the way is lined with purple heather and bracken, rowan trees and bushes full of blueberries.
- Wind-stunted bushes of willow, hazel, birch and rowan hugged the heather.
- About a third of the total area will be set aside for natural regeneration of broadleaf trees such as oak, rowan and birch.
- Our own native rowan, Sorbus aucuparia, has orange-red berries, which appear in early September and which have largely been eaten by the end of the same month.
- Head teacher Ruth Matthews said the five field maple and five rowan trees were chosen to provide colourful leaves and berries for the wildlife.
- Compared to native varieties, the existing trees have proved to be unsuccessful in creating a thriving, natural habitat and, in October, they will be replaced with oak, rowan, birch and holly to attract wildlife and insects.
- Turning, she saw a middle aged man leaning against a rowan tree.
- It is hoped oak, birch and rowan, the dominant species found naturally in such local woodlands, will gradually seed in the areas thinned.
- Until very recently, the wood comprised mainly of Norway spruce with beech, Scots pine, oak, grey willow and birch, with some rowan and holly in the shrub layer.
- ‘If the rowans are full, it will be a bad winter,’ say the locals in my part of the world.
- The wood has been planted with more than 400 oak, rowan and birch trees bought in memory of loved ones or to commemorate a special occasion.
- Among the new species of 5,000 trees - which students from Newton Rigg College have helped to plant - are sessile, oak, ash, hazel, rowan, alder and holly.
- The rowan tree, or mountain ash as it is better known, is now in full bloom.
- Lois, a sculpture graduate from Aberdeen, takes her inspiration from a single object - a rowan tree in the garden of her neighbour's house.
- Virginia insists that she is not superstitious, but she says that she had to have a rowan by the gate.
- Most wonderful of all, there are two brand new invasions of mistletoe in the rowan tree that overhangs the patio.
- I stopped beside a tumbling waterfall and enjoyed a late lunch below a rowan tree, its bright red berries outliving the crumpled yellow leaves.
- It's hard to think of autumn and winter berries without thinking of the mountain ash, or rowan tree.
- The children in first and second class also put the school grounds to great use, where the birch, maple and rowan trees were the subjects of their investigations.
- Suitable species on an exposed inland site include birch, rowan, Scots pine, ash and oak.
- Varieties suggested would be natural to the moorland fringe such as rowan, birch, holly and hawthorn.
- Two other members of the apple family are the whitebeam and the rowan.
- The wood of oak, hazel, rowan, alder, willow, juniper, ash, bird cherry and aspen will take shape on the shores of Loch Katrine over the next 20 years using thousands of acres of land leased to the Forestry Commission.
- Much of the weed was cleared out to allow easy angling, though plenty of silver birch, rowan, alder, sycamore and pine remain to provide a scenic backdrop.
- More than 60 acres of broadleaf cover including oak, birch and rowan will be created on six farms along a scenic stretch of the River Esk, from Westerdale to Sleights, near Whitby.
- In some cases, for example, hawthorn and rowan, leaves appear before flowers; in others, like blackthorn, pear and willow, the flowers are first visible.
- The first group consists of those planted in the last 20 to 30 years, species such as rowan, cherry and crab apple.
- The birds still have plenty of places to perch - there's a rowan tree we planted a couple of years ago nearby which is getting large enough for the smaller birds to start using it.
- The rest will be a mosaic of birch, rowan, wild cherry, alder, juniper and holly.
- 1.1 The scarlet berry of the rowan tree.
Example sentencesExamples - The first sign of autumn is the arrival of fieldfares and redwings coming back from their summer holidays in Scandinavia, pausing to pig out on rowan berries.
- They also ate berries such as rowan and cloudberry, and hazelnuts.
- Judging by the rowan berries out in crimson abundance, autumn is once more upon us.
- Blackwell staff are also keen to encourage visually impaired visitors to discover many of the tactile features of Blackwell's home grown Arts and Crafts design - such as the carved oak panelling of rowan berries in the main hall.
- Crab apples were used, as were sloes, rose hips and rowan berries.
- Eriksson and Nummi determined fairly low ethanol contents for rowan berries, rose-hips, and hawthorn fruits in autumn and winter conditions in Finland.
- Did you know that waxwings get drunk on rowan berries, and possess livers twice the size of other comparable birds to deal with these occasional binges?
- S. aucuparia, the rowan or mountain ash, owes its specific name to the practice of bird-catchers in Germany and elsewhere who would trap small birds in hair nooses baited with rowan berries.
- I have this week watched starlings, jays and woodpigeons gorging themselves on rowan berries.
- Add the rowan berries and the cloves and bring the liquid back to the boil.
- The school grounds, which are according to Eanna ‘excellent - great for safe exploring and very well planted’, served up a wonderful array of elderberries, blackberries, privet berries, haws, rose hips and rowan berries.
OriginLate 15th century (originally Scots and northern English): of Scandinavian origin; compare with Norwegian rogn. Rhymesanthozoan, bryozoan, Goan, hydrozoan, Minoan, protozoan, protozoon, Samoan, spermatozoon Definition of rowan in US English: rowan(also rowan tree) noun 1A mountain ash, in particular the European Sorbus aucuparia. Example sentencesExamples - About a third of the total area will be set aside for natural regeneration of broadleaf trees such as oak, rowan and birch.
- In some cases, for example, hawthorn and rowan, leaves appear before flowers; in others, like blackthorn, pear and willow, the flowers are first visible.
- Compared to native varieties, the existing trees have proved to be unsuccessful in creating a thriving, natural habitat and, in October, they will be replaced with oak, rowan, birch and holly to attract wildlife and insects.
- The rowan tree, or mountain ash as it is better known, is now in full bloom.
- ‘If the rowans are full, it will be a bad winter,’ say the locals in my part of the world.
- Most wonderful of all, there are two brand new invasions of mistletoe in the rowan tree that overhangs the patio.
- Plant berry-bearing plants in your garden, such as hawthorn, rowan, holly, cotoneaster and berberis.
- The wood has been planted with more than 400 oak, rowan and birch trees bought in memory of loved ones or to commemorate a special occasion.
- More than 60 acres of broadleaf cover including oak, birch and rowan will be created on six farms along a scenic stretch of the River Esk, from Westerdale to Sleights, near Whitby.
- Australians call these mountain ash, but they are unrelated to the rowan and mountain ash of Europe and North America.
- The rest will be a mosaic of birch, rowan, wild cherry, alder, juniper and holly.
- Two other members of the apple family are the whitebeam and the rowan.
- Wind-stunted bushes of willow, hazel, birch and rowan hugged the heather.
- Head teacher Ruth Matthews said the five field maple and five rowan trees were chosen to provide colourful leaves and berries for the wildlife.
- Varieties suggested would be natural to the moorland fringe such as rowan, birch, holly and hawthorn.
- The first group consists of those planted in the last 20 to 30 years, species such as rowan, cherry and crab apple.
- It is hoped oak, birch and rowan, the dominant species found naturally in such local woodlands, will gradually seed in the areas thinned.
- Outside the kitchen window is a rowan tree I planted about ten years ago.
- It also makes sense, if you are planting new trees, to grow small trees like rowan, magnolia or cherry close to the house, saving large trees like oak, beech and lime for further away.
- Our own native rowan, Sorbus aucuparia, has orange-red berries, which appear in early September and which have largely been eaten by the end of the same month.
- Lois, a sculpture graduate from Aberdeen, takes her inspiration from a single object - a rowan tree in the garden of her neighbour's house.
- The steeper slopes and cliffs of Augill support a mixed woodland of ash, birch and rowan with an interesting ground flora including species such as bluebell, sanicle and wood avens.
- Among the new species of 5,000 trees - which students from Newton Rigg College have helped to plant - are sessile, oak, ash, hazel, rowan, alder and holly.
- I stopped beside a tumbling waterfall and enjoyed a late lunch below a rowan tree, its bright red berries outliving the crumpled yellow leaves.
- There is also a plentiful growth of rowan and willow, particularly over the past half dozen years.
- The Croft garden doesn't have many large trees from which we can gather more than a barrow or two of leaves, but of those we do have - rowan and Norway maple - put on a colourful show before leaf-fall.
- Turning, she saw a middle aged man leaning against a rowan tree.
- It's hard to think of autumn and winter berries without thinking of the mountain ash, or rowan tree.
- The National Trust was awarded £39,000 from the Forestry Commission to rebuild the wall and to plant 5,000 new trees, including oak, ash, rowan and hazel.
- Much of the weed was cleared out to allow easy angling, though plenty of silver birch, rowan, alder, sycamore and pine remain to provide a scenic backdrop.
- The wood of oak, hazel, rowan, alder, willow, juniper, ash, bird cherry and aspen will take shape on the shores of Loch Katrine over the next 20 years using thousands of acres of land leased to the Forestry Commission.
- More native trees will be encouraged such as ash, alder, oak and rowan along streams and in the north west of the wood near Over Silton.
- Pollen studies by scientists have revealed that both of the island chains were once covered in dense woodlands of birch, alder, willow, hazel, rowan and aspen.
- Half of the field will be planted with native ash, along with cherry, rowan and hazel trees, sessile oaks and downy birches.
- The children in first and second class also put the school grounds to great use, where the birch, maple and rowan trees were the subjects of their investigations.
- The birds still have plenty of places to perch - there's a rowan tree we planted a couple of years ago nearby which is getting large enough for the smaller birds to start using it.
- Virginia insists that she is not superstitious, but she says that she had to have a rowan by the gate.
- Suitable species on an exposed inland site include birch, rowan, Scots pine, ash and oak.
- Back on the winding road to Lancaster, the way is lined with purple heather and bracken, rowan trees and bushes full of blueberries.
- Until very recently, the wood comprised mainly of Norway spruce with beech, Scots pine, oak, grey willow and birch, with some rowan and holly in the shrub layer.
- 1.1 The scarlet berry of the rowan tree.
Example sentencesExamples - Eriksson and Nummi determined fairly low ethanol contents for rowan berries, rose-hips, and hawthorn fruits in autumn and winter conditions in Finland.
- Crab apples were used, as were sloes, rose hips and rowan berries.
- Did you know that waxwings get drunk on rowan berries, and possess livers twice the size of other comparable birds to deal with these occasional binges?
- Judging by the rowan berries out in crimson abundance, autumn is once more upon us.
- They also ate berries such as rowan and cloudberry, and hazelnuts.
- I have this week watched starlings, jays and woodpigeons gorging themselves on rowan berries.
- Add the rowan berries and the cloves and bring the liquid back to the boil.
- Blackwell staff are also keen to encourage visually impaired visitors to discover many of the tactile features of Blackwell's home grown Arts and Crafts design - such as the carved oak panelling of rowan berries in the main hall.
- The first sign of autumn is the arrival of fieldfares and redwings coming back from their summer holidays in Scandinavia, pausing to pig out on rowan berries.
- S. aucuparia, the rowan or mountain ash, owes its specific name to the practice of bird-catchers in Germany and elsewhere who would trap small birds in hair nooses baited with rowan berries.
- The school grounds, which are according to Eanna ‘excellent - great for safe exploring and very well planted’, served up a wonderful array of elderberries, blackberries, privet berries, haws, rose hips and rowan berries.
OriginLate 15th century (originally Scots and northern English): of Scandinavian origin; compare with Norwegian rogn. |