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  1. 1. n. A tree unusually hard, strong, or heavy wood. Source: opted
  2. 2. n. 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 Source: wordnet
  3. 3. n. exceptionally tough or hard wood of any of a number of ironwood trees Source: wordnet
  4. 4. n. a small slow-growing deciduous tree of northern Iran having a low domed shape Source: wordnet
  5. 5. n. medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America Source: wordnet
  6. 6. A tree unusually hard, strong, or heavy wood. Note: In the United States, the hornbeam and the hop hornbeam are so called; also the Olneya Tesota, a small tree of Arizona; in the West Indies, the Erythroxylon areolatum, and several other unrelated trees; in China, the Metrosideros vera; in India, the Mesua ferrea, and two species of Inga; in Australia, the Eucalyptus Sideroxylon, and in many countries, species of Sideroxylon and Diospyros, and many other trees. Source: webster
  7. 7. n:100 n. exceptionally tough or hard wood of any of a number of ironwood trees Source: ecdict

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