Beefwood - Definition

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