beefwood

English

A beefwood (sense 1), specifically Casuarina equisetifolia

Etymology

From beef +‎ wood.

Noun

beefwood (countable and uncountable, plural beefwoods)

1. Any of the Australian trees, of at least three different orders of plants, having timber resembling raw beef.
2. (uncountable) Timber of those trees.

Synonyms

• belah

Hyponyms

• (beefwood tree): Barringtonia calyptrata, Barringtonia racemosa, Bischofia javanica (bishop wood), Grevillea parallela, Grevillea striata, Orites excelsa, Stenocarpus salignus, Stenocarpus sinuatus

Derived terms

• cornbeefwood (Barringtonia calyptrata, Barringtonia racemosa)
• narrow-leaved beefwood (Grevillea parallela)
• western beefwood (Grevillea striata)
• white beefwood (Orites excelsa, Stenocarpus sinuatus)
• Killarney beefwood (Stenocarpus salignus)
• scrub beefwood (Stenocarpus salignus)

References

• beefwood on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “beefwood”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.