Metrosideros s is a genus of approximately 50 trees, shrubs, and vines native to the islands of the Pacific Ocean, from the Philippines to New Zealand and including the Bonin Islands, Polynesia, and Melanesia, with an anomalous outlier in South Africa. Most of the tree forms are small, but some are exceptionally large, the New Zealand species in p...
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• (n.) A myrtaceous genus of trees or shrubs, found in Australia and the South Sea Islands, and having very hard wood. Metrosideros vera is the true ironwood.
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Met`ro·si·de'ros noun [ New Latin , from Greek ... heart of a tree + ... iron.]
(Botany) A myrtaceous genus of trees or shrubs, found in Australia and the South Sea Islands, and having very hard wood.
Metrosideros vera is the true ironwood.
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Metrosideros is a genus of trees and shrubs of the natural order Myrtaceae. Metrosideros vera, known as iron-wood, is a tree, a native of Java and Amboyna. Of the wood of this tree the Chinese and Japanese make rudders, anchors, etc. Metrosideros robusta is the rata of New Zealand, where it is employed in shipbuilding and in other ways. The trees o...
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