Definitions of ironwood:

  • noun:   exceptionally tough or hard wood of any of a number of ironwood trees
  • noun:   medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America
  • noun:   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
  • noun:   a small slow-growing deciduous tree of northern Iran having a low domed shape