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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 beef·wood /ˈbifˌwʊd/
 澳洲產紅色堅硬木材

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 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]