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Beefwood

noun

A tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber. Synonyms: balata, balata tree, bully tree, Manilkara bidentata.

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. Synonyms: scrub beefwood, Stenocarpus salignus.

Tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood. Synonym: Grevillea striata.

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"Beefwood" Quotes from Famous Books

... Campagna of Rome, of the rolling tops of the Nilghiri Hills in Southern India, from which, unhappily, the far more beautiful ancient groves ("sholas") have now almost disappeared. Besides those gums, another Australasian tree, the thin-foliaged and unlovely, but quick-growing "beefwood," has been largely planted at Kimberley and some other places. The stone-pine of Southern Europe, the cluster-pine (Pinus Pinaster), and the Aleppo or Jerusalem pine (Pinus Halepensis), have all been introduced and seem to do well. The Australian wattles have been found very useful in helping ...

— Impressions of South Africa • James Bryce

Words linked to "Beefwood" : silk oak, Stenocarpus, casuarina, Australian pine, bully tree, Manilkara bidentata, tree, gutta balata, wood, Stenocarpus salignus, genus Casuarina, Casuarina equisetfolia, Grevillea striata, genus Stenocarpus