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Definition: Metrosideros vera
Ironwood
\I"ron*wood`\, n. (Bot.)
A tree unusually hard, strong, or heavy wood.
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster]
Metrosideros
\Met`ro*si*de"ros\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? heart of a
tree + ? iron.] (Bot.)
A myrtaceous genus of trees or shrubs, found in Australia and
the South Sea Islands, and having very hard wood.
Metrosideros vera is the true ironwood.
[1913 Webster]
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