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Definition of Beefwood

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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 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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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.

Meaning of Beefwood from wikipedia

- Beefwood is the name given to a number of Australian trees which have timber with a red colouration resembling raw beef as follows: Barringtonia calyptrata...
- in different parts of the world. Other common names include the white beefwood, Queensland firewheel tree, tulip flower, white oak and white silky oak...
- Ironwood, Beach Sheoak, Horsetail Casuarina, Australian Pine, Australian Beefwood - Hawaiian Plants and Tropical Flowers". 2009-12-24. Retrieved 2023-10-27...
- Grevillea striata, commonly known as beefwood or silver honeysuckle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to continental...
- Other common names in Australia include ironwood, bull-oak or buloke, beefwood, or c****owary tree. The Shire of Buloke in Victoria, Australia, is named...
- Grevillea mcgillivrayi is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to Queensland in Australia. It is slender tree with linear...
- Beefwood Parish, New South Wales is a remote rural locality and civil parish of Yungnulgra County in far North West New South Wales. The Parish an arid...
- Grevillea glauca, commonly known as bushman's clothes peg, cobblers peg tree, beefwood tree, nut wood, nalgo, or kawoj in New Guinea, is a species of flowering...
- Stenocarpus salignus, known as the scrub beefwood is an Australian rainforest tree in the family Proteaceae. Found in warmer rainforests on the coast and...
- by the native coconut palm (Cocos nucifera), and introduced horsetail beefwood (Casuarina equisetifolia) trees. In 1965, five Seyc****es fody (Foudia...