Any of a number of trees that produce very hard timber.
（材质坚硬的）铁木，尤指
a southern African tree of the olive family (Olea laurifolia, family Oleaceae).
a North American tree related to the hornbeam (Ostrya virginiana, family Betulaceae).
Example sentencesExamples
The ironwood's branches are thick with growth.
Sugar maples commonly share the forest with ironwood, beech, basswood, white ash, black cherry, yellow birch, white pine, and red oak.
Foothill palo verde and ironwood - two small trees in the legume family - almost always dominate the dry streambeds.
Later we tour his plantation, through virgin forest of soaring ironwood and banyan trees and rustly arcades of cardamom leaves, with clusters of young green pods at the base.
The three dominant tree species of the forest canopy are sugar maple, ironwood, and white ash.
Definition of ironwood in US English:
ironwood
nounˈīərnˌwo͝od
Any of a number of trees that produce very hard timber.
（材质坚硬的）铁木，尤指
another term for the "American hornbeam" and the "eastern hornbeam" (see hornbeam)
a southern African tree of the olive family (Olea laurifolia, family Oleaceae)
Example sentencesExamples
The three dominant tree species of the forest canopy are sugar maple, ironwood, and white ash.
The ironwood's branches are thick with growth.
Foothill palo verde and ironwood - two small trees in the legume family - almost always dominate the dry streambeds.
Later we tour his plantation, through virgin forest of soaring ironwood and banyan trees and rustly arcades of cardamom leaves, with clusters of young green pods at the base.
Sugar maples commonly share the forest with ironwood, beech, basswood, white ash, black cherry, yellow birch, white pine, and red oak.