rowans

Noun

rowan (plural rowans)

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.2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 06 Jan 2026

   Synonyms:

   mountain ash, quickbeam, wicken, wicky

2. 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.
3. (obsolete) wych-elm, Ulmus glabra.

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