ironbark

[ ahy-ern-bahrk ]

noun

1. any of the various Australian eucalyptuses having a hard, solid bark.

ironbark

/ ˈaɪənˌbɑːk /

noun

1. any of several Australian eucalyptus trees that have hard rough bark

Word History and Origins

Origin of ironbark¹

First recorded in 1905–10; iron + bark ²

Example Sentences

IRONBARK was the codename for just one source: Oleg Penkovsky.

From The Daily Beast

Pressed, Carter replied that the agency had drawn on a number of sources, “including our IRONBARK sources.”

From The Daily Beast

Good-bye, George, old man; I'm sorry we can't wire in with you; we'd soon knock out those posts and rails on the ironbark range.'

From Project Gutenberg

Through dismal ironbark forests that looked as black by night as if all the tree-trunks were cast-iron and the leaves gun-metal.

From Project Gutenberg

See, there is a good place, under that silver leaf ironbark, where it is rather dark.

From Project Gutenberg

To-day I took my old course to the north-west, and passed a scrubby Ironbark forest, and flat openly-timbered forest land.

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The latter abound in the silver-leaved Ironbark forest, where the grass has been recently burned.

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