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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 roan /ˈron ||ˈroən/
 (a.)菊花青色的菊花青色的馬,柔軟的羊皮

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Roan, n.
 1. The color of a roan horse; a roan color.
 2. A roan horse.
 3. A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to imitate ungrained morocco.
 Roan tree. Bot. See Rowan tree.
 

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Roan a.
 1. Having a bay, chestnut, brown, or black color, with gray or white thickly interspersed; -- said of a horse.
    Give my roan a drench.   --Shak.
 2. Made of the leather called roan; as, roan binding.
 Roan antelope Zool., a very large South African antelope (Hippotragus equinus). It has long sharp horns and a stiff bright brown mane. Called also mahnya, equine antelope, and bastard gemsbok.

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 roan
      adj : (used of especially horses) having a brownish coat thickly
            sprinkled with white or gray; "a roan horse"
      n 1: a soft sheepskin leather that is colored and finished to
           resemble morocco; used in bookbinding
      2: horse having a roan coat