beefwood

Noun

• tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood

• tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish wood

• any of several Australian trees of the genus Casuarina yielding heavy hard red wood used in cabinetwork

• any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for cabinetwork

• a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Grevillea striata , scrub beefwood , Stenocarpus salignus , balata , balata tree , bully tree , Manilkara bidentata