Definitions
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- noun 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 medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America
- noun a small slow-growing deciduous tree of northern Iran having a low domed shape
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Examples
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I begged of him as I never begged of my own father, but he was hard as the ironwood tree.
Romany of the Snows, Continuation of "Pierre and His People", v3 Gilbert Parker 1897
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I begged of him as I never begged of my own father, but he was hard as the ironwood tree.
Romany of the Snows, Continuation of "Pierre and His People" Gilbert Parker 1897
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I begged of him as I never begged of my own father, but he was hard as the ironwood tree.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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