beef·wood /ˈbifˌwʊd/
澳洲產紅色堅硬木材
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
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]