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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Row·an tree  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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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Roan, n.
 1. The color of a roan horse; a roan color.
 2. A roan horse.
 3. A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to imitate ungrained morocco.
 Roan tree. Bot. See Rowan tree.
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