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.
- synonyms: rose chestnut, ironwood, Mesua ferrea
- A small slow-growing deciduous tree of northern Iran having a low domed shape.
- Medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America.
- synonyms: Eastern hop hornbeam, ironwood, Ostrya virginiana
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