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ironwood
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun ironwood has 4 senses
- ironwood(n = noun.plant) ironwood tree, mesua ferrea, rose chestnut - handsome East Indian evergreen tree often planted as an ornamental for its fragrant white flowers that yield a perfume; source of very heavy hardwood used for railroad ties; Array is a member of genus mesua, mesua
- ironwood(n = noun.plant) Array - exceptionally tough or hard wood of any of a number of ironwood trees; Array is a kind of wood
- ironwood(n = noun.plant) iron tree, iron-tree, ironwood tree - a small slow-growing deciduous tree of northern Iran having a low domed shape; Array is a member of genus parrotia, parrotia
- ironwood(n = noun.plant) eastern hop hornbeam, ironwood tree, ostrya virginiana - medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America; Array is a member of genus ostrya, ostrya
is a kind of tree
is a kind of angiospermous tree, flowering tree
is a kind of hop hornbeam
CIDE DICTIONARY
ironwood, n.
A tree unusually hard, strong, or heavy wood. [1913 Webster]
" In the United States, the hornbeam and the hop hornbeam are so called; also the Olneya Tesota , a small tree of Arizona; in the West Indies, the Erythroxylon areolatum , and several other unrelated trees; in China, the Metrosideros vera ; in India, the Mesua ferrea , and two species of Inga ; in Australia, the Eucalyptus Sideroxylon , and in many countries, species of Sideroxylon and Diospyros , and many other trees."
[1913 Webster]
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