Beefwood

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Porkwood \Pork"wood`\, n. (Bot.)
     The coarse-grained brownish yellow wood of a small tree
     ({Pisonia obtusata}) of Florida and the West Indies. Also
     called {pigeon wood}, {beefwood}, and {corkwood}.
     [1913 Webster]



From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Beefwood \Beef"wood`\, n.
     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.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Casuarina \Cas`u*a*ri"na\, n. [NL., supposed to be named from
     the resemblance of the twigs to the feathers of the
     cassowary, of the genus {Casuarius}.] (Bot.)
     A genus of leafless trees or shrubs, with drooping branchlets
     of a rushlike appearance, mostly natives of Australia. Some
     of them are large, producing hard and heavy timber of
     excellent quality, called {beefwood} from its color.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  beefwood
       n 1: a hard-wooded tropical tree yielding balata gum and heavy
            red timber [syn: {balata}, {balata tree}, {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}, {Stenocarpus salignus}]
       5: tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood [syn: {Grevillea
          striata}]