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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

Example Sentences

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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

It is undulating poor land of a sandstone formation, grassed with triodia and wooded with ironbark and bloodwood.

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

On the skirt of it was a hill named Boorr, which we kept close on our left, crossing its lower extremities, which were covered with a forest of ironbark eucalyptus, and forest oaks or casuarinae.

From Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 by Mitchell, Thomas

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