ironwood
ironwood noun: acacia esthrophiolata, Acacia excelsa, Acacia melanoxylon, Acacia stenophylla, or Erythrophleum chlorostachys.
Noun
ironwood (countable and uncountable, plural ironwoods)
- Acacia esthrophiolata, Acacia excelsa, Acacia melanoxylon, Acacia stenophylla, or Erythrophleum chlorostachys.
- Lydia and the boys lived in a shabby, prefabricated house of three rooms, which had been set down in the shade of an ironwood.1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 139
- Aegiphilia martinicensis
- Afzelia africana
- Astronium spp.
- Backhousia myrtifolia
- Carpinus caroliniana
- Casuarina cristata
- Chionanthus caymanensis
- Cliftonia monophylla
- Colubrina elliptica
- Combretum imberbe
- Cordia subcordata
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- Cyrilla racemiflora
- Dialium guianense
- Exothea paniculata
- Foresteria pubescens
- Gordonia haematoxylon
- Gymnostoma sumatranum
- Heritiera spp.
- Jacquinia keyensis
- Metrosideros spp.
- Myracrodruon urundeuva
- Ostrya virginiana
- Parrotia spp.
- Paubrasilia echinata
- Prunus africana
- Schinopsis spp.
- Schleichera oleosa
- Senegalia muricata
- Sideroxylon spp.
- Sloania spp.
- Swartzia spp.
- Terminalia canescens
- Thouina striata
- Vachellia farnesiana
ironwood meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Persian
ironwood in Tamil
- பாலை மரம்
ironwood in Malayalam
- ironwood, a flowering tree
- കായാവ് kāyāvŭ
ironwood in Persian
- any of a number of tree species known for having a particularly solid wood
- آهنچوب āhančub
Forms of ironwood
| plural | ironwoods |
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Origin of ironwood
From iron + wood, because of its toughness.
Words formed from ironwood
- bastard ironwood
- black ironwood
- Borneo ironwood
- Brazilian ironwood
- broad-leaved ironwood
- Catalina ironwood
- Ceylon ironwood
- common ironwood
- Cooktown ironwood
- desert ironwood
- giant ironwood
- Jamaica ironwood
- Lebombo ironwood
- Persian ironwood
- Philippine ironwood
- pock ironwood
- red ironwood
- Sonora ironwood
- southern ironwood
- white ironwood
Questions about ironwood
- What does ironwood mean?
- Ironwood means acacia esthrophiolata, Acacia excelsa, Acacia melanoxylon, Acacia stenophylla, or Erythrophleum chlorostachys.
- What is ironwood in Tamil?
- Ironwood in Tamil is பாலை மரம். See Ironwood meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is ironwood?
- Ironwood is a noun.
- What is the plural of ironwood?
- The plural of ironwood is ironwoods.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: ironwood (page history and authors); ironwood (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); കായാവ് (Malayalam) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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