beefwood
beefwood · beefwoods
Any of the Australian trees, of at least three different orders of plants, having…Any of the Australian trees, of at least three different orders of plants, having timber resembling raw beef.
Meaning
2 senses(countable, uncountable)Any of the Australian trees, of at least three different orders of plants, having timber resembling raw beef.
(uncountable)Timber of those trees.
More definitions
- tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood
- any of several Australian trees of the genus Casuarina yielding heavy hard red wood used in cabinetwork
- any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for cabinetwork
- tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish wood
Origin
From beef + wood.From beef + wood.
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Forms
plural: beefwoodsSynonyms
8 synonymsClose in meaning
- tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood:Grevillea striata
- tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish wood:scrub beefwoodStenocarpus salignus
- a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber:balatabalata treebully treeManilkara bidentata
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable