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Ironwood n. (Bot.) A tree unusually hard, strong, or heavy wood. Note: In the United States, the hornbeam and the hop hornbeam are so called; also the Olneya Tesota, a small tree of Arizona; in the West Indies, the Erythroxylon areolatum, and several other unrelated trees; in China, the Metrosideros vera; in India, the Mesua ferrea, and two species of Inga; in Australia, the Eucalyptus Sideroxylon, and in many countries, species of Sideroxylon and Diospyros, and many other trees.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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

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