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iroko
Word definitions for iroko in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Iroko is a large hardwood tree from the west coast of tropical Africa that can live up to 500 years. The tree is known to the Yoruba as ìrókò, logo or loko and is believed to have supernatural properties. Iroko is known to the Igbo people as oji wood. It ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A hardwood obtained from several African trees of the genus (taxlink Chlorophora genus noshow=1).
Usage examples of iroko.
Shonto slowly picked a sliver of iroko wood off his robe and turned it in his hand as though it were entirely alien material.
He turned to Tanaka who was plucking a spear of iroko wood from his beard.
Is the rumor true that he shattered an iroko table with only a gesture?
The rows of pillars that lined the central hall were each carved from a single iroko tree and lacquered to a deep sheen.
I saw people of all shapes and sizes, mountainous women with faces of iroko, midgets with faces of stone, reedy women with twins strapped to their backs, thick-set men with bulgingshoulder muscles.
Another path led to the swamp and marshes and the forest of massive iroko and obeche and mahogany trees.
In the middle of the village was a great iroko tree, golden and brown, with phosphorescent leaves and moon-white birds in the branches, twittering out the sweetest essences of music.