ironwood
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 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
Types & categories
- tree hypernym
Parts & wholes
- Mesua member holonym
Sense 2 noun
exceptionally tough or hard wood of any of a number of ironwood trees
Types & categories
- wood hypernym
Sense 3 noun
a small slow-growing deciduous tree of northern Iran having a low domed shape
Types & categories
- angiospermous tree hypernym
Parts & wholes
- Parrotia member holonym
Sense 4 noun
medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America
Types & categories
- hop hornbeam hypernym
Parts & wholes
- Ostrya member holonym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | Mesua |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | tree |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | wood |
| 3 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | Parrotia |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | angiospermous tree |
| 4 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | Ostrya |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | hop hornbeam |