beefwood
1. a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber • Syn: balata, balata tree, bully tree, Manilkara bidentata • Hypernyms: tree • Substance Meronyms: balata, gutta balata 2. any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for cabinetwork • Hypernyms: wood • Substance Holonyms: Grevillea striata, scrub beefwood, Stenocarpus salignus 3. any of several Australian trees of the genus Casuarina yielding heavy hard red wood used in cabinetwork • Hypernyms: casuarina • Hyponyms: Australian pine, Casuarina equisetfolia • Member Holonyms: genus Casuarina 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 • Hypernyms: tree • Member Holonyms: Stenocarpus, genus Stenocarpus 5. tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood • Syn: Grevillea striata • Hypernyms: silk oak
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