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
• Syn: ↑rose chestnut, ↑ironwood tree, ↑Mesua ferrea
• Hypernyms: ↑tree
• Member Holonyms: ↑Mesua, ↑genus Mesua
2. exceptionally tough or hard wood of any of a number of ironwood trees
• Hypernyms: ↑wood
3. a small slow-growing deciduous tree of northern Iran having a low domed shape
• Syn: ↑iron tree, ↑iron-tree, ↑ironwood tree
• Hypernyms: ↑angiospermous tree, ↑flowering tree
• Member Holonyms: ↑Parrotia, ↑genus Parrotia
4. medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America
• Syn: ↑Eastern hop hornbeam, ↑ironwood tree, ↑Ostrya virginiana
• Hypernyms: ↑hop hornbeam
• Member Holonyms: ↑Ostrya, ↑genus Ostrya
Useful english dictionary. 2012.