Noun: rowan
| Singular | rowan |
| Plural | rowans |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
Nouns inflected like rowan
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Originally Scots and northern English, from Middle English ron, rone, compare also Northern English raan, ran. At first referring to its fruits, of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse reynir.
2. Also related to Norwegian Bokmål rogn, Danish røn. Ultimately related to the root of red. See: Middle English Nouns '
ron', Old Norse Nouns '
reynir', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns '
rogn', Danish Nouns '
røn'.