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Ironwood   /ˈaɪərnwˌʊd/   Listen
Ironwood

noun
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 railroad ties.  Synonyms: ironwood tree, Mesua ferrea, rose chestnut.
2.
Exceptionally tough or hard wood of any of a number of ironwood trees.
3.
A small slow-growing deciduous tree of northern Iran having a low domed shape.  Synonyms: iron-tree, iron tree, ironwood tree.
4.
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



... when night filled the forest with the hoot of owl, and the far, weird cries of wild creatures on the rove, there sped through the aisled columns of star light and shadow, the ghostly figure of the French boy slim, and lithe as a willow, with muscles tense as ironwood, and step silent as the mountain-cat. All that night he ran without a single stop. Chill daybreak found him still staggering on, over rocks slippery with the night frost, over windfall tree on tree in a barricade, through brawling mountain brooks ...
— Pathfinders of the West • A. C. Laut


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