Usually means: Color pattern of interspersed hairs.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word roan:

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  1. roan: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. roan: Merriam-Webster
  3. roan, roan: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. roan: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. roan: Collins English Dictionary
  6. roan: Vocabulary.com
  7. Roan, roan: Wordnik
  8. roan: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. roan: Wiktionary
  10. roan: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. roan: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. roan: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Roan, roan: Dictionary.com
  14. roan: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Roan (color), Roan (horse), Roan (name), Roan: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Roan: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. roan: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. roan: Rhymezone
  19. Roan: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. roan: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Roan: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. roan: FreeDictionary.org
  23. roan: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. roan: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. The roan, roan: Encyclopedia

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  2. The roan, roan: Medical dictionary

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  2. ROAN: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Roan: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Horse Racing Terminology (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A surname
adjective:  (of an animal, especially of a horse) Having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in.
adjective:  Made of roan (kind of leather).
noun:  An animal (such as a horse) that has a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in.
noun:  The color of such an animal.
noun:  A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to imitate ungrained morocco.
noun:  Archaic form of rowan (“kind of tree”). [Sorbus aucuparia, the European rowan.]

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