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Noun: Mesua ferrea
  1. 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 railway ties
    - rose chestnut, ironwood, ironwood tree, cobra's saffron

Type of: tree

Part of: genus Mesua, Mesua

Encyclopedia: Mesua ferrea

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