IRONWOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ironwood mean? 

• IRONWOOD (noun)
  The noun IRONWOOD has 4 senses:

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

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

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

4. medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America

  Familiarity information: IRONWOOD used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IRONWOOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

ironwood; ironwood tree; Mesua ferrea; rose chestnut

Hypernyms ("ironwood" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Holonyms ("ironwood" is a member of...):

genus Mesua; Mesua (genus of tropical Asiatic trees having large solitary flowers)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Exceptionally tough or hard wood of any of a number of ironwood trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("ironwood" is a kind of...):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

iron-tree; iron tree; ironwood; ironwood tree

Hypernyms ("ironwood" is a kind of...):

angiospermous tree; flowering tree (any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary)

Holonyms ("ironwood" is a member of...):

genus Parrotia; Parrotia (one species: iron tree)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Eastern hop hornbeam; ironwood; ironwood tree; Ostrya virginiana

Hypernyms ("ironwood" is a kind of...):

hop hornbeam (any of several trees resembling hornbeams with fruiting clusters resembling hops)

Holonyms ("ironwood" is a member of...):

genus Ostrya; Ostrya (deciduous monoecious trees of Europe and Asia and America; sometimes placed in subfamily or family Carpinaceae)