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ironwood /ˈʌɪənwʊd /nounAny of a number of trees that produce very hard timber, in particular:- A southern African tree of the olive family (Olea laurifolia, family Oleaceae). A North American tree related to the hornbeam (Ostrya virginiana, family Betulaceae)..
Sugar maples commonly share the forest with ironwood, beech, basswood, white ash, black cherry, yellow birch, white pine, and red oak....- 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.
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