sideroxylon

See also: Sideroxylon

English

Etymology

From the genus name. Philosophical use comes from Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, who used the Greek word even in German.

Noun

sideroxylon (plural sideroxylons)

1. (botany) Any of the genus Sideroxylon of tropical sapotaceous trees noted for their very hard wood; ironwood.
2. (rhetoric) Oxymoron. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

Further reading

• Sideroxylon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Sideroxylon on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Sideroxylon on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• sideroxylon at USDA Plants database

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sideroxylon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)