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Ironwood

noun

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. Synonyms: ironwood tree, Mesua ferrea, rose chestnut.

Exceptionally tough or hard wood of any of a number of ironwood trees.

A small slow-growing deciduous tree of northern Iran having a low domed shape. Synonyms: iron-tree, iron tree, ironwood tree.

Medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America. Synonyms: Eastern hop hornbeam, ironwood tree, Ostrya virginiana.

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"Ironwood" Quotes from Famous Books

... commoner. He suggested a black-faced, grey-whiskered monkey of the jungles. Indeed the pair were an anthropoid couple, Hunsa the gorilla, and the headman an ape. Behind them straggled a dozen villagers, men armed with long ironwood sticks of combat. ...

— Caste • W. A. Fraser

... right distance from one end he was able to separate a piece of the log. He rolled this to his cave and made a good-sized hollow in it by burning. This pestle was not so difficult to make. He took a limb or branch of an ironwood tree, burned it in two at the place to make it the right length. By burning also he rounded one end and then he was ready for the grinding. After cleaning his mortar and pestle carefully he placed some corn in the hollow and soon had some fine ...

— An American Robinson Crusoe - for American Boys and Girls • Samuel. B. Allison

Words linked to "Ironwood" : angiospermous tree, Mesua, genus Ostrya, Ostrya virginiana, genus Mesua, genus Parrotia, rose chestnut, hop hornbeam, flowering tree, wood, Parrotia, tree, Ostrya