ironwoods

Meanings

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
• 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
• medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America
• plural of ironwood

Synonyms

Eastern hop hornbeam, iron tree, iron-tree, ironwood, ironwood tree, Mesua ferrea, Ostrya virginiana, rose chestnut