beefwood

Plural: beefwoods

Noun

• Any of several trees yielding a hard, reddish, beef-colored wood.
• a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber
• any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for cabinetwork
• any of several Australian trees of the genus Casuarina yielding heavy hard red wood used in cabinetwork
• tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish wood
• tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood
• Any of the Australian trees, of at least three different orders of plants, having timber resembling raw beef.
• Timber of those trees.

Examples

• He built his score slowly, adding BEEFWOOD to the trunk of his word tree.

Synonyms

balata, balata tree, bully tree, Grevillea striata, Manilkara bidentata, scrub beefwood, Stenocarpus salignus, belah