1. (

• rose_chestnut ,
• ironwood ,
• ironwood_tree ,
• Mesua_ferrea

) 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 ;

2. (

• ironwood ,

) exceptionally tough or hard wood of any of a number of ironwood trees ;

3. (

• iron_tree ,
• iron-tree ,
• ironwood ,
• ironwood_tree ,

) a small slow-growing deciduous tree of northern Iran having a low domed shape ;

4. (

• Eastern_hop_hornbeam ,
• ironwood ,
• ironwood_tree ,
• Ostrya_virginiana

) medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America ;