rowen

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: row=en

CIDE DICTIONARY

rowen, n. [Cf. E. rough, OE. row, rowe.].

•  A stubble field left unplowed till late in the autumn, that it may be cropped by cattle.  [1913 Webster]

  "Turn your cows, that give milk, into your rowens till snow comes."  [1913 Webster]
•  The second growth of grass in a season; aftermath.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

rowen, n. (in sing. or pl.) US a second growth of grass, an aftermath.

Etymology

ME f. OF regain (as GAIN)

ROGET THESAURUS

rowen

Productiveness

N productiveness, fecundity, fertility, luxuriance, uberty, pregnancy, pullulation, fructification, multiplication, propagation, procreation, superfetation, milch cow, rabbit, hydra, warren, seed plot, land flowing with milk and honey, second crop, aftermath, aftercrop, aftergrowth, arrish, eddish, rowen, protoplasm, fertilization, productive, prolific, teeming, teemful, fertile, fruitful, frugiferous, fruit-bearing, fecund, luxuriant, pregnant, uberous, procreant, procreative, generative, life-giving, spermatic, multiparous, omnific, propagable, parturient, profitable.