rose chestnut

rose chestnut
noun
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
Syn: ↑ironwood, ↑ironwood tree, ↑Mesua ferrea
Hypernyms: ↑tree
Member Holonyms: ↑Mesua, ↑genus Mesua

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noun
: an East Indian timber tree (Mesua ferrea) that has very heavy hard wood used for railroad ties and flowers yielding a perfume

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