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