ironwood

(noun)

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

Definition categories: plant, tree

2. exceptionally tough or hard wood of any of a number of ironwood trees

Definition categories: plant, wood

3. a small slow-growing deciduous tree of northern Iran having a low domed shape

Definition categories: plant

4. medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America

Definition categories: plant