Back in Maine, the term ironwood clearly referred to the common hop hornbeam. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: HACKMATACK.] Reference
Unique to southwestern Morocco, the trees produce a hard wood, called ironwood, used for fuel. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
The two that are getting to me lately are "ironwood," which here in Hawai'i means a variety of Casuarina sp. native to Australia I think. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: HACKMATACK.] Reference
Nunn cut me a stout ironwood cudgel as a handy weapon. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
The ironwood did not grow very big and had a twisted trunk. From Wordnik.com. [The Biography of a Rabbit] Reference
Suddenly they came to the ironwood forest, and were appalled. From Wordnik.com. [Pet Peeve]
Leaf: Doubly serrated; otherwise the same as that of ironwood. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of Trees] Reference
It came from an old tree in the ironwood forest south of here. From Wordnik.com. [Pet Peeve]
Forests and woodlands: Catalina ironwood stands, Island oak series. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Channel Islands (Bailey)] Reference
Then she spied the ogre's twisted-ironwood-tree house and descended. From Wordnik.com. [Harpy Thyme]
The big front door was well over twice his own height, made of ironwood. From Wordnik.com. [Faun & Games]
Hannah hacked a branch off an ironwood tree and added it to the collection. From Wordnik.com. [Pet Peeve]
Then they returned to their logging of ironwood trees, ignoring the prisoners. From Wordnik.com. [Pet Peeve]
It seemed almost as solid and hard as stone, but it wasn't rock maple or ironwood. From Wordnik.com. [Dragon on a Pedestal]
The wood is light-colored, and extremely hard and heavy; hence the name of ironwood. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885] Reference
"It occurs to me that an ironwood forest would be the ideal place for their factory.". From Wordnik.com. [Pet Peeve]
The boys then began to make combs from a specie of bamboo, and from the ironwood tree. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: Conquest of the Savages] Reference
The dominant species are teak (Tectona grandis) and Pyinkado or ironwood (Xylia kerri). From Wordnik.com. [Irrawaddy moist deciduous forests] Reference
The girl was now sitting with her back to an ironwood tree, trying to brush herself off. From Wordnik.com. [Question Quest]
Nodulation and nitrogen fixation (acetylene reduction) in desert ironwood (Olneya tesota). From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 29] Reference
The color of the bark in the ironwood is brownish, while that of the blue beech is bluish-gray. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of Trees] Reference
Bornean ironwood Eusideroxylon zageri, or Belian, is a common and commercially valuable species. From Wordnik.com. [Borneo lowland rain forests] Reference
A box of miscellaneous glassware included an ironwood carving of a dolphin, which my Dad collects. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
The twin hulls were sleek and narrow, the mast of ironwood creaking as the wind pulled on the sail. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
"I rode out past the Klynstatt Marshes and spent half the day grubbing through the ironwood forests.". From Wordnik.com. [The Order War]
He darted out the door, and was back in a moment carrying an ironwood walking stick with a gilt-brass knob. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the Torturer]
The heaviest of these is the black ironwood of southern Florida, which is more than thirty per cent. heavier than water. From Wordnik.com. [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference
They made a wide detour around the ironwood forest, which continued to resound with the sounds of its ongoing destruction. From Wordnik.com. [Pet Peeve]
The ironwood, however, has a characteristic bark that peels in perpendicular, short, thin segments, often loose at the ends. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of Trees] Reference
She closed her console and put it back in the mesh bag, then crossed the rope bridge between the ironwood tree and the banyan. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
Yet the higher growths were no more promising; the huge metal trunks of ironwood trees crowded against the burned-out boles of ash. From Wordnik.com. [The Source of Magic]
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