ironwood
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1. medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | hop hornbeam, |
| definition | : | any of several trees resembling hornbeams with fruiting clusters resembling hops (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | genus ostrya, ostrya, |
| definition | : | deciduous monoecious trees of Europe and Asia and America; sometimes placed in subfamily or family Carpinaceae (noun.plant) |
2. a small slow-growing deciduous tree of northern Iran having a low domed shape (noun.plant)
3. exceptionally tough or hard wood of any of a number of ironwood trees (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | wood, |
| definition | : | the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees (noun.substance) |
4. 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 (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | tree, |
| definition | : | a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | genus mesua, mesua, |
| definition | : | genus of tropical Asiatic trees having large solitary flowers (noun.plant) |
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