ironwood

Noun

• medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America

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

• exceptionally tough or hard wood of any of a number of ironwood trees

• 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

Related words

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