Beefwood

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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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • 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
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    wood    tree    silk oak   
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    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    belah