lowan

Other forms of lowan

plural

lowans·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lowan

What does lowan mean?

lowan means "Australian mound bird; incubates eggs naturally in sandy mounds".

How many syllables are in lowan?

lowan has 2 syllables: lo-wan. The stress falls on "lo".

What is another word for lowan?

Close synonyms include mallee fowl, leipoa, Leipoa ocellata. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lowan a common word?

lowan is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.