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ironbark

American  
[ahy-ern-bahrk] / ˈaɪ ərnˌbɑrk /

noun

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


ironbark British  
/ ˈaɪənˌbɑːk /

noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of ironbark

First recorded in 1905–10; iron + bark 2

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One of those companies is Taylor Guitars, which recently began using Shamel ash and red ironbark eucalyptus supplied by West Coast Arborists in some of its guitars.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2022

The men blasted huge ice floes and icebergs threatening the uniquely tough hull of the St. Roch, which was copper sheathed and overlaid with ice-resisting Australian ironbark.

From Time Magazine Archive

He grabbed the wooden knockers on the tiller lines and began to bang them against the ironbark knocker-boards fastened to either side of the hull.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

From Tom Gerrard by Louis Becke

Where it is not thickly wooded with thick mulga scrub, which chiefly prevails, it is grassed with triodia and wooded with rather broad-leaved ironbark, broad-leaved box, and apple-trees.

From Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills by William Landsborough

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