Sentence example with the word 'ironwood'

ironwood

Definition n. handsome East Indian evergreen tree often planted as an ornamental for its fragrant white flowers that yield a perfume

Last update: June 9, 2015


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The forest vegetation, largely confined to the "Isle of Isles" and the southern uplands, includes the Adansonia (baobab), which in the Fazogli district attains gigantic proportions, the tamarind, of which bread is made, the deleb palm, several valuable gum trees (whence the term Sennari often applied in Egypt to gumarabic), some dyewoods, ebony, ironwood and many varieties of acacia.   [Please select]

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Then the warriors made ready their _u'u_ of polished ironwood, and filled their baskets with stones, and made ready the spears.'   [Please select]

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It was of the hardness of ginger, and filled a large _tanoa_, or wooden trough of ironwood.   [Please select]

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A pair was building a nest on July 19, 1962, in an ironwood tree about 10 feet above the ground.   [Please select]

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The ja^n-dáona, "wood with a smooth head," is a club made of ironwood, which is very hard.   [Please select]

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Bows were made of hickory, ash, ironwood, or zaⁿzi, the last being greatly preferred.   [Please select]

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