beefwood Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber
    balata; Manilkara bidentata; balata tree; bully tree.
  2. noun any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for cabinetwork
  3. noun any of several Australian trees of the genus Casuarina yielding heavy hard red wood used in cabinetwork
  4. noun tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish wood
    Stenocarpus salignus; scrub beefwood.
  5. noun tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood
    Grevillea striata.

WordNet

Beef"wood` noun
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913