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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

... pausing perforce to let my panting lungs gulp the air, I saw around me ever new and stranger growths—orchids, giant creepers, the noni enata, a small bush with crimson pears upon it, the toa, or ironwood, which gave deadly clubs in war-time, but now spread its boughs peacefully amidst the prodigal foliage of ...

— White Shadows in the South Seas • Frederick O'Brien

... began to feel the want of a snooze. Two or three hours' rest would, he thought, put him in a state to continue his road, and so he laid himself down on the grass as comfortably as he could, and waited for sleep beneath the ironwood-tree. ...

— Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon • Jules Verne

... the land was broken by ravines and the woodbine hung its long green ladders from the ironwood tree or made pillars of Corinthian design of the gleaming sycamores which stood along the banks of a stream, two boys were fishing. It was hard to decide which made the more radiant picture: the softly sculptured landscape or the glow ...

— See America First • Orville O. Hiestand

... jungle that day, but moved about the rim of that delved pasture-land, watching the creek from different angles, studying the trees without their insignia. We knew the main timbers only—beech, oak, elm, maple and hickory and ash, blue beech and ironwood and hawthorn. There were others that I did not know, and the Abbot seemed disturbed that ...

— Child and Country - A Book of the Younger Generation • Will Levington Comfort

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