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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

(Bot.)

A tree unusually hard, strong, or heavy wood.

☞ In the United States, the hornbeam and the hop hornbeam are so called; also the

Olneya Tesota

, a small tree of Arizona; in the West Indies, the

Erythroxylon areolatum

, and several other unrelated trees; in China, the

Metrosideros vera

; in India, the

Mesua ferrea

, and two species of

Inga

; in Australia, the

Eucalyptus Sideroxylon

, and in many countries, species of

Sideroxylon

and

Diospyros

, and many other trees.

Noun.

The popular name of a genus of trees called Sideroxylon, of several species; so called from their hardness.