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# roan

«roan» in Mova's school dictionary: **Roan describes an animal, especially a horse or mule…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective; noun (roans)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Roan describes an animal, especially a horse or mule, whose coat is brown, red or black mixed with white or grey hairs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roan/#m1)

2) A roan is such an animal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roan/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a colour name for a horse or mule in farm and country tales

### examples

- A roan pony stood by the gate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roan/#x1)
- He rode his roan mule to town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roan/#x2)
- The roan horse trotted into the yard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roan/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «roan» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roan/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.