Aside from giving elephants and lions more room to roam, it could help speed the recovery of the sable and roan antelope, two severely endangered species that have nearly disappeared from Kruger.
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Roan
//ˈɹoʊ.ən//
Synonyms for "roan" (54 found)
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Closest matches (11)
Strong matches (16)
Related words (27)
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Translations
36 translations across 17 languages.
Afrikaans
3 entries- skimmel adj (having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in)
- skimmel noun (animal)
- skimmel noun (color)
Bulgarian
2 entries- дорест adj (having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in)
- шарен adj (having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in)
Catalan
1 entries- ruà adj (having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in)
Czech
2 entries- prokvetlý adj (having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in)
- tisák noun (animal)
Esperanto
1 entries- ruana adj (having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in)
Estonian
3 entries- kimmel adj (having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in)
- kimmel noun (animal)
- kimmel noun (color)
Finnish
2 entries- päistärikkö adj (having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in)
- päistärikkö noun (animal)
French
2 entries- rouan adj (having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in)
- rouan noun (animal)
Galician
2 entries- roán adj (having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in)
- ruán adj (having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in)
Hungarian
3 entries- aranyderes adj (having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in)
- deres adj (having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in)
- deres noun (animal)
Italian
4 entries- rabicano adj (having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in)
- roano adj (having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in)
- rovano adj (having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in)
- roano noun (animal)
Latvian
2 entries- salns adj (having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in)
- salnis noun (animal)
Navajo
1 entries- łį́į́łbáhí noun (animal)
Portuguese
1 entries- ruão adj (having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in)
Russian
1 entries- чалый adj (having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in)
Spanish
4 entries- roano adj (having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in)
- roano noun (animal)
- rosillo noun (animal)
- sabino noun (animal)
Welsh
1 entries- broc adj (having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
Mrs. Roan was 26 years old, in good health, kept her house, and was faithful in the discharge of her duties as a wife.
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Explaining the Kamalanomenon (another Chappell Roan reference) is part of Jessica Maddox’s job. […] She spent Sunday evening telling her husband, “because I’m like, 10 days on the internet ahead of him,” about the significance of the coconut tree, which has been a thing for weeks now.
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roan binding
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