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Noun: ironwood tree
  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, Mesua ferrea, cobra's saffron
     
  2. A small slow-growing deciduous tree of northern Iran having a low domed shape
    - iron tree, iron-tree, ironwood
     
  3. Medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America
    - Eastern hop hornbeam, ironwood, Ostrya virginiana

Derived forms: ironwood trees

Type of: angiospermous tree, flowering tree, hop hornbeam, tree

Part of: genus Mesua, genus Ostrya, genus Parrotia, Mesua, Ostrya, Parrotia

Encyclopedia: Ironwood tree