Beefwood
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Any of the Australian trees, of at least three different orders of plants, having timber resembling raw beef. countable, uncountable
- 2 tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood wordnet
- 3 Timber of those trees. uncountable
- 4 tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish wood wordnet
- 5 any of several Australian trees of the genus Casuarina yielding heavy hard red wood used in cabinetwork wordnet
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- 6 any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for cabinetwork wordnet
- 7 a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber wordnet
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From beef + wood.