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Rowan tree

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Row´an tree`
1.(Bot.) A european tree (Pyrus aucuparia) related to the apple, but with pinnate leaves and flat corymbs of small white flowers followed by little bright red berries. Called also roan tree, and mountain ash. The name is also applied to two American trees of similar habit (Pyrus Americana, and Pyrus sambucifolia).
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Noun1.Rowan tree - Eurasian tree with orange-red berrylike fruitsrowan tree - Eurasian tree with orange-red berrylike fruits
European mountain ash, rowan, Sorbus aucuparia
mountain ash - any of various trees of the genus Sorbus
rowanberry - decorative red berrylike fruit of a rowan tree
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Members of Shepley WI planted the rowan tree on the village green in 1990 to mark the 75th birthday of the organisation nationally.
Special tree felled by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
 
 
 
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