Consider how much many adults know about words for trees like bay, alder, hornbeam,rowan, or gingko.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Scots pine is, of course, the dominant plant species, but other trees, including birch, alder, willow, aspen,rowan, juniper and holly, also appear.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
There is one superb natural woodland, of oak and ash,rowan, thorn and alder, which has not been much disturbed for hundreds of years.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
For example, small semi-natural clusters of oak orrowancan be found on some areas of high moor.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Apart from deer, one sees all kinds of other animals such as foxes and badgers looking for worms and berries off therowantrees.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Particularlyrowantrees and silver birch survive very well in those circumstances.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
He was tremendously interested in therowantree.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
I remember a technical boundary dispute which was solved by the position of one scrubrowantree on the side of a mountain which was shown on the 25 in.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
There are some woodlands with downy birch androwan.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Trees include hornbeam, silver birch, ash, elm and hazel as well as several varieties ofrowan.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
The woodland is dominated by silver birch, with aspen, holly,rowan, sessile oak and wild cherry also present.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Trees include yew, birch, beech,rowan, several species of pine and a number of blossoming fruit trees.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
The woods have tall oaks above a layer of sweet chestnut,rowanand birch, and there are several areas of grassland.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
There are over one hundred species of plants including oak, royal fern androwantrees.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
The eastern peninsula is covered in deciduous trees such asrowan, alder and willow, while the remainder is covered by coniferous trees.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.