'Beefwood' definitions:
Definition of 'beefwood'
(from WordNet)
noun
A tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber [syn: balata, balata tree, beefwood, bully tree, Manilkara bidentata]
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Any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for cabinetwork
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Any of several Australian trees of the genus Casuarina yielding heavy hard red wood used in cabinetwork
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Tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish wood [syn: scrub beefwood, beefwood, Stenocarpus salignus]
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Tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood [syn: beefwood, Grevillea striata]
Definition of 'Beefwood'
From: GCIDE
- Beefwood \Beef"wood`\, 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'beefwood'
From: GCIDE
- Porkwood \Pork"wood`\, n. (Bot.) The coarse-grained brownish yellow wood of a small tree (Pisonia obtusata) of Florida and the West Indies. Also called pigeon wood, beefwood, and corkwood. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'beefwood'
From: GCIDE
- Casuarina \Cas`u*a*ri"na\, n. [NL., supposed to be named from the resemblance of the twigs to the feathers of the cassowary, of the genus Casuarius.] (Bot.) A genus of leafless trees or shrubs, with drooping branchlets of a rushlike appearance, mostly natives of Australia. Some of them are large, producing hard and heavy timber of excellent quality, called beefwood from its color. [1913 Webster]