Found 2 items, similar to Mesua ferrea.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: Mesua ferrea
Mesua ferrea
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 [syn:
rose chestnut,
ironwood,
ironwood tree]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Mesua ferrea
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]