Word Finder - roan

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An animal such as a horse that has a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in.

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The color of such an animal.

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A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to imitate ungrained morocco.

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Especially of a horse, having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in

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Made of the leather called roan.

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roan binding

Powerful sable and roan antelope roam the forests, while a growing elephant population is becoming more visible.

Many species of antelope are found, mostly in small numbers, including the kudu, hartebeest, the sable and roan antelope, the white tailed and the brindled gnu, waterbuck, red buck, duiker, blesbok, palla, springbuck (numerous), steinbok, grysbok and klipspringer.

The sable and roan antelopes are distinguished from Oryx by the stout and thickly ringed horns rising vertically from a ridge over the eyes at an obtuse angle to the plane of the lower part of the face, and then sweeping backwards in a bold curve.

The roan antelope is a larger animal, with shorter horns, whose general colour in both sexes is strawberry-roan.

The last-named includes a number of lofty plateaus - the Roan or Book, Uncompahgre, &c., which form the eastern continuation of the high plateaus of Utah - and covers the western quarter of the state.

Otto is a chestnut roan colt who was born on the 15/05/06.

Email July 2006 To Share 2/3 days a week for Sienna; a 15.1hh roan mare aged 11yrs.

We game drive our way through Mahango and have the chance to spot rarely seen Namibian species such as roan the majestic sable antelope.

The fauna includes the lion and elephant, found in the neighbourhood of the Portuguese frontier (the lion was also found as late as 1895 in the Ndwandwe district), the white and the black rhinoceros, the leopard, panther, jackal, spotted hyena, aard-wolf, buffalo, zebra, gnu, impala, inyala, oribi, hartebeeste, kudu, springbok, waterbuck, eland, roan antelope, duiker, &c., hares and rabbits.

This pure bred, gray roan, Arab gelding is owned and ridden by Miss Joanne Marsh and represented the South West of England.

Only one roan horse has won the Champion Hurdle, Anzio in 1962.

The roan cob had been brought up to the side door.

Beef Shorthorns are red, red and white, white or roan in color.

Among other popular places of entertainment may be mentioned the exhibition grounds and buildings at Earl's Court; similar grounds at Shepherd's Bush, where a Franco-British Exhibition was held in 1908, an Imperial Exhibition in 1909, and an Anglo-Japanese in 1910; the great Olympia hall, West Kensington; the celebrated wax-work exhibition of Madame Tussaud in Marylebone Roan, the Alexandra Palace, Muswell Hill, an institution resembling the Crystal Palace; and the Agricultural Hall, Islington, where agricultural and other exhibitions are held.