Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun ironwood

4 senses of ironwood

Sense 1
rose chestnut, ironwood, ironwood tree, Mesua ferrea -- (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)
       => tree -- (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Sense 2
ironwood -- (exceptionally tough or hard wood of any of a number of ironwood trees)
       => wood -- (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Sense 3
iron tree, iron-tree, ironwood, ironwood tree -- (a small slow-growing deciduous tree of northern Iran having a low domed shape)
       => angiospermous tree, flowering tree -- (any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary)

Sense 4
Eastern hop hornbeam, ironwood, ironwood tree, Ostrya virginiana -- (medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America)
       => hop hornbeam -- (any of several trees resembling hornbeams with fruiting clusters resembling hops)