Apparently, 'rowan' is simply a somewhat dated synonym of 'mountain ash'. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: SEAMUS HEANEY.] Reference
Apparently a rowan is a variety of mountain ash. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: SEAMUS HEANEY.] Reference
"rowan" stakes sheathed on the outsides of her thigh-high black leather boots. From Wordnik.com. [The Warslayer]
The rowan is the mountain-ash. From Wordnik.com. [The Lake] Reference
The rowan is the mountain ash. From Wordnik.com. [Marmion] Reference
Mark i didnt go to clare college either but rowan did. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
O rowan fair, upon your hair how white the blossom lay!. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Rings]
O rowan dead, upon your head your hair is dry and grey. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Rings]
Sons o birk an pine an rowan, Jocks an Ivans by the score. From Wordnik.com. [Gillie Mor] Reference
None could credit that a “kee-rowan” could fly so far. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference
The time was green rowan; the light lay wan across the landscape. From Wordnik.com. [Marune: Alastor 933]
The rowan, or mountain ash, whose berries had been the food of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Hallowe'en] Reference
Frost glittered on the branches of the rowan tree beside the door. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Dentist]
Aud, isp, red rowan, green rowan, and umber are the ordinary gradations. From Wordnik.com. [Marune: Alastor 933]
Between the crevices there grew a little rowan tree and four alder bushes. From Wordnik.com. [The Lilac Fairy Book] Reference
"And here are oatcakes and Ayrshire cheese, and rowan and apple jelly, and". From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
I like birds, even when they chatter; and the rowan has enough and to spare. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Rings]
I don't know how you get around that ... rowan wrote on May 23, 2007 1: 55 PM. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Romney Camp Bashes Massachusetts In New Ad] Reference
Squirrels are at the unripe hazelnuts already and rowan berries are pillar-box red. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Wenlock Edge] Reference
For the same reason, doubtless, he desired to have rowan-trees set above his grave. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Dwarf] Reference
The loch is surrounded by woodland, some of it birch/rowan although in parts moribund. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Loch Farr] Reference
Talking with Barack Obama, sits down with rowan martin for an interview ahead in the NEWSROOM. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2007] Reference
Above these the hobbits saw thickets of birch and rowan, and beyond them dark climbing pinewoods. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Rings]
No spell was known to them that could work against a ship whose masts were made of the rowan tree. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Border Marches] Reference
The heather had settled down to a rusty colour and the rowan-trees were heavy with scarlet berries. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Charming Man]
That above the dungeon you see now the weeping statue - thank you - still digs under the rowan tree. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the Torturer]
S.ariar S. Afshar, (submitted to Physical Review Letters, July, 2004); S.e also users. rowan.edu/~afshar. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
It is surrounded by birch and rowan woodland, which means it is sheltered and forms a sun trap for insects. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Loch Bran] Reference
Whenever he saw a rowan-tree he halted a while with his arms stretched out, and sang, and swayed as he sang. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Rings]
“Eilidh,” I heard him whisper; “Eilidh of the lips like the red, red rowan and the golden-brown hair!”. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Pool] Reference
Direct the children to look for grosbeaks in the pine and rowan trees, where they may be seen feeding on the seeds. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
The exciseman's horse still stood where his master had left him, hitched to a rowan tree a few yards from the door. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Border Marches] Reference
Holly brakes, tangles of rowan and birch, and sessile oak saplings, all witness the seethe of spring and battle for light. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Harlech] Reference
They were already behind the outhouses, then behind the two great rowan trees; they hurried lest Mrs. Brede should see them. From Wordnik.com. [Look Back on Happiness] Reference
She picked it up — carefully — by the end of the cord, and tucked her faux-rowan stake carefully away in its boot-sheath. From Wordnik.com. [The Warslayer]
Here too hearts have broken, and there is a sacredness in the shadow and beneath these clustering berries of the rowan-trees. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to Dead Authors] Reference
First of all, it is by Southern English standards bleak woods, for we have a few, are of small trees, rowan and bi and small fir. From Wordnik.com. [Surprised by Joy]
Seeds that are carried in edible fruits which have attractive colours, tastes, etc. Examples -- apple, grape, cherry, rowan, hawthorn. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
But when I came up they decided that the wild hops were over, and there were no rowan berries left now, nor any richly coloured leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Autumn Star] Reference
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