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单词 ironwood
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Definition of ironwood in English:

ironwood

noun ˈʌɪənwʊdˈīərnˌwo͝od
  • Any of a number of trees that produce very hard timber.

    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.

    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.
 
 
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