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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Any of the Australian trees, of at least three different orders of plants, having timber resembling raw beef. countable, uncountable
2. 2
   tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood wordnet
3. 3
   Timber of those trees. uncountable
4. 4
   tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish wood wordnet
5. 5
   any of several Australian trees of the genus Casuarina yielding heavy hard red wood used in cabinetwork wordnet

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6. 6
   any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for cabinetwork wordnet
7. 7
   a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

balatabalatabalata treebelahbelahbully tree

Etymology

From beef + wood.

Related phrases

Killarney beefwoodnarrow-leaved beefwoodscrub beefwoodwestern beefwoodwhite beefwood

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