ironwood

/ahy-ern-wood/US // ˈaɪ ərnˌwʊd //UK // (ˈaɪənˌwʊd) //

铁木,铁树,铁木真,铁林

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : any of various trees yielding a hard, heavy wood, as the American hornbeam, Carpinus caroliniana, or Lyonothamnus floribundus, found on the islands off the coast of S California.
- : the wood of any of these trees.

I never left the claim once, and I had a good-sized club of ironwood which I was ready to use on the slightest provocation.
From a piece of ironwood, cut in the forest with great labour, I made a spade to dig with.
The Ironwood of India cannot be worked, as its hardness blunts every tool.
For its choice it has the pick of American timber, the ironwood of our national forests of humanity.
The heaviest of these is the black ironwood of southern Florida, which is more than thirty per cent.