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Noun: rose chestnut
  1. Handsome East Indian evergreen tree often planted as an ornamental for its fragrant white flowers that yield a perfume; source of very heavy hardwood used for railway ties
    - ironwood, ironwood tree, Mesua ferrea, cobra's saffron

Derived forms: rose chestnuts

Type of: tree

Part of: genus Mesua, Mesua

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