ironwood
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- noun
- /ˈaɪərnˌwʊd/
:
árbol de hierro
- Carefully, she laid a small fire with kindling at the bottom, topped by a layer of several wrist-thick branches of dried ironwood.
- ironwood tree
Examples
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This elegant bird, mostly white but with a bright red bill, can be found nesting under shrubs and ironwood trees.
Academic text (1999) -
Also common, but less conspicuous, are hundreds of Black Noddies that have adapted to nesting in the introduced ironwood or casuarina trees rather than their usual ground or shrub sites.
Academic text (1999) -
I thought I saw my father standing under the ironwoods, smoking a cigarette.
Fiction book (1999) -
I sat down on a stone bench beneath a flowering ironwood tree.
Fiction book (1993) -
Palm fronds rattled and the ironwoods bent and swayed.
Fiction book (1999) -
P181 2:13 P.M. I pulled the Datsun to the side of the road where a tangle of palms and ironwoods screened a beach, and I stepped out into their shade.
Fiction book (1999) -
The ironwood tree in the garden is known for its strength and durability.
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He built a sturdy bench from the hard wood of an ironwood tree.
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The ancient ironwood trees are a key feature of this unique desert landscape.
Synonyms
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A tree with very hard wood used to make strong furniture and tools
Compounds
How Hard
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ironwood names trees whose timber is extremely hard, using iron ('iron') plus wood ('wood') to show their strength. So a tree called ironwood is one of several species known for making very tough, durable wood.