beefwood > define
noun
- A tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber.
- synonyms: balata, balata tree, bully tree, Manilkara bidentata
- Any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for cabinetwork.
- Any of several Australian trees of the genus Casuarina yielding heavy hard red wood used in cabinetwork.
- Tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish wood.
- synonyms: scrub beefwood, Stenocarpus salignus
- Tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood.
- synonyms: Grevillea striata
by WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(n.) An Australian tree (Casuarina), and its red wood, used for cabinetwork; also, the trees Stenocarpus salignus of New South Wales, and Banksia compar of Queensland.
by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary