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ironwood has 7 distinct synonyms spread across 3 of its 4 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
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
exceptionally tough or hard wood of any of a number of ironwood trees
a small slow-growing deciduous tree of northern Iran having a low domed shape
medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for ironwood come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.