ironwood : Idioms & Phrases


brazilian ironwood

  • noun thornless tree yielding heavy wood
    Caesalpinia ferrea.
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ironwood tree

  • 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
    Mesua ferrea; rose chestnut; ironwood.
  • noun a small slow-growing deciduous tree of northern Iran having a low domed shape
    iron-tree; iron tree; ironwood.
  • noun medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America
    Eastern hop hornbeam; ironwood; Ostrya virginiana.
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