desert ironwood

noun

1

: a small leguminous tree (Olneya tesota) of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico with odd-pinnate leaves and purplish white flowers in short racemes

called also Sonora ironwood

2

: the hard wood of the desert ironwood

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