ironwood
Nouns
- (n) 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 ironwood tree, Mesua ferrea, rose chestnut,
- (n) exceptionally tough or hard wood of any of a number of ironwood trees
- (n) a small slow-growing deciduous tree of northern Iran having a low domed shape iron tree, iron-tree, ironwood tree,
- (n) medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America Eastern hop hornbeam, Ostrya virginiana, ironwood tree,