sideroxylon
See also: Sideroxylon
English
Etymology
From the genus name.
Noun
sideroxylon (plural sideroxylons)
- (botany) Any of the genus Sideroxylon of tropical sapotaceous trees noted for their very hard wood; ironwood.
- (rhetoric) Oxymoron. (Can we verify(+) this sense?)
Further reading
- Sideroxylon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Sideroxylon on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Sideroxylon on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- sideroxylon at USDA Plants database
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sideroxylon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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