ironwood

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  1. noun Any of numerous trees, such as the hornbeam and the hop hornbeam, that have very hard wood.
  2. noun The wood of any of these trees.

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  • What now A walk on the beach to clear my head and think things over The path to the beach wound through ironwood, papaya, and banana trees, flowering shrubs crowding in beneath them. —  Muller, Marcia - [22] A Walk through the fire.htm
  • There was noni enata, a diminutive bush bearing crimson pears, ironwood, umbrella ferns which grew in profusion, candlenut trees, and the paper mulberry with yellow blossoms and cottony, round leaves. —  002 - The Land of Terror
  • Her handprint was burned deep into the ironwood, smoldering and coal red, like her own palm. —  Witch Gate.htm
  • Its sharp point pierced smoothly through the ironwood, as if it were only warmed butter. —  Witch Gate.htm
  • Then she spied the ogre's twisted-ironwood-tree house and descended. —  Harpy Thyme
 

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