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A small slow-growing deciduous tree of northern Iran having a low domed shape
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ironwood
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Word definitions for ironwood in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ironbark \I"ron*bark`\, Ironbark tree \I"ron*bark` tree`\ (Bot.) The Australian Eucalyptus Sideroxylon , used largely by carpenters and shipbuilders; -- called also ironwood . Also applied to other Australian eucalyptuses with a hard, solid bark
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Ironwood is a pornographic comic book series written and drawn by Bill Willingham in the 1990s, published in the United States by Eros Comix . It ran for 11 issues; the first six issues being published in 1991, the remaining five taking another four years ...
Wiktionary
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n. 1 (context countable English) Any of a number of tree species known for having a particularly solid wood. 2 (context uncountable English) The wood of any ironwood tree.
Gazetteer
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Population (2000): 6293 Housing Units (2000): 3349 Land area (2000): 6.553472 sq. miles (16.973415 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 6.553472 sq. miles (16.973415 sq. km) FIPS code: 41060 Located within: ...
Usage examples of ironwood.
Ralph Ames, had told me when he was extolling the virtues of Ironwood Ranch, a posh drug and alcohol rehab establishment that had risen from the ashes of a failed dude ranch outside a small, god-forsaken town called Wickenburg in the wilds of central Arizona.
Beaumont, a Washington boy born and bred, had never set foot in the state of Arizona until the day I came to Ironwood Ranch.
I could cheerfully have murdered Ralph Ames for convincing me to check into Ironwood Ranch in the first place.
It was the middle of my fourth week of treatment, Family Week, as they call it at Ironwood Ranch.
Beaumont in the annals of Ironwood Ranch, and that my transgression, however minor, would be duly reported to Louise Crenshaw, the final arbiter of client affairs.
Rumor had it that she had come to Ironwood Ranch as one of the first fulltime counselors, married her boss Calvin Crenshaw without much difficulty, and immediately assumed the throne.
He had finally sobered up and was wanting to help others do the same when his mother died leaving him sole owner of the aging Ironwood Ranch.
Crenshaw had decreed an unwritten but nonetheless inviolable rule that she and only she was to notify the authorities of any irregularities involving Ironwood Ranch and its residents.
I first arrived at Wickenburg, I had crossed the bridge over the Hassayampa River on my way to Ironwood Ranch.
Surely the Ironwood Ranch rumor mill was fully operational, particularly among the counselors.
I had been ready to tear into the deputy for putting me off, for not calling me in to talk to him as soon as he arrived at Ironwood Ranch, but the emotional roller-coaster of the past few minutes had left me hollow and drained.
No one at Ironwood Ranch had called me Detective since my arrival four weeks before.
After all, he was the one who was ultimately responsible for my being at Ironwood Ranch in the first place.
Meanwhile, I felt as though the indelible aura of Ironwood Ranch still clung to my body.
If my son really was a drug dealer, he should have been in jail, not at Ironwood Ranch.