单词 | rowan berry |
释义 | > as lemmasrowan berry rowan berry n. [compare Norwegian rognebær, (Nynorsk) raunebær, Old Swedish röndebær (Swedish rönnbær), Danish rønnebær (already in early modern Danish)] = sense 1. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > berry-bush or -tree > [noun] > mountain ash > rowan-berry rowanc1440 rodden1568 rowan berry1723 1723 in H. Hamilton Select. Monymusk Papers (1945) 98 I have gathred a quantity of roanberries. 1793 R. Heron Observ. Journey Western Counties Scotl. I. 208 The clusters of rowan-berries which crowned its trees. 1814 W. Scott Diary 23 Aug. in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1837) III. vii. 227 A pennon of silk, with something like round red rowan-berries wrought upon it. 1891 J. M. Barrie Little Minister I. i. 9 Rowan berries in your black hair. 1928 L. Stockett Baltimore xvii. 282 Close to the house was a bush of rowan berries. 2002 Guardian 17 Jan. ii. 15/1 The Bohemian waxwing has a taste for rowan berries that have begun to ferment. < as lemmas |
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