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beefwood
(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.
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Beefwood
(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.
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beefwood
(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.
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beefwood
(wn) | beefwood
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] |
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scrub beefwood
(encz) | scrub beefwood, n: |
Beefwood
(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]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]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.
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scrub beefwood
(wn) | scrub beefwood
n 1: 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] |
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