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noun
Any of the Australian trees, of at least three different orders of plants, having timber resembling raw beef.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Timber of those trees.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Grevillea striata
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: silk oak
noun
tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish wood
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: scrub beefwood, Stenocarpus salignus
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: tree
noun
any of several Australian trees of the genus Casuarina yielding heavy hard red wood used in cabinetwork
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: casuarina
Narrower terms: Australian pine, Casuarina equisetfolia
noun
any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for cabinetwork
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: wood
noun
a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: balata, balata tree, bully tree, Manilkara bidentata
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: tree
History
From beef + wood.
