The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
n. Any of various Australian evergreen trees or shrubs of the genus Casuarina, having jointed stems, scalelike whorled leaves, and small fruits grouped in woody conelike structures.
n. The wood of any of these plants, often used in construction.
n. Any of the Australian trees having timber resembling raw beef
n. The timber of those trees.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The timber of some species of Australian trees belonging to the genus Casuarina (which see).
n. In the West Indies, a name given to Pisonia obtusata, with soft coarse-grained wood.
WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
n. any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for cabinetwork
n. any of several Australian trees of the genus Casuarina yielding heavy hard red wood used in cabinetwork
n. tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish wood
n. a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber
n. tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood
Word Usage
"Besides those gums, another Australasian tree, the thin-foliaged and unlovely, but quick-growing "beefwood," has been largely planted at Kimberley and some other places."