Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various Australian trees or shrubs having dense red timber, including several casuarinas.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The timber of some species of Australian trees belonging to the genus Casuarina (which see).
- noun In the West Indies, a name given to Pisonia obtusata, with soft coarse-grained wood.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An Australian tree (Casuarina), and its red wood, used for cabinetwork; also, the trees
Stenocarpus salignus of New South Wales, andBanksia compar of Queensland.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of the Australian
trees havingtimber resembling rawbeef - noun uncountable The timber of those trees.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for cabinetwork
- noun any of several Australian trees of the genus Casuarina yielding heavy hard red wood used in cabinetwork
- noun tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish wood
- noun a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber
- noun tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood
Etymologies
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Examples
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Besides those gums, another Australasian tree, the thin-foliaged and unlovely, but quick-growing "beefwood," has been largely planted at Kimberley and some other places.
Impressions of South Africa James Bryce Bryce 1880
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Between those brushes the ground was open forest with good grass, casuarina or beefwood, and large timber: the hills as usual stony.
Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales 2003
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The beefwood tree, the leaves of which camels, when hard pressed, will eat, alone commands the summit of the undulations.
Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885
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Spellbound they crouched in the black and smouldering ashes of the spinifex, mouths open and eyes staring, and then with one terrific yell away they ran, dodging and doubling until a somewhat bushy beefwood tree seemed to offer them means of escape.
Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885
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We could, by their tracks, see where they had herded together in fear under a beefwood tree not one hundred yards from us.
Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885
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On June 2nd we crossed the last sand-ridge of the great northern desert, and before us spread the rolling gravel-covered undulations of sand, treeless except for an occasional beefwood or small clump of mulga, rolling away before us like a swelling ocean.
Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885
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Next some parallel ridges lying north and south were crossed, where some beefwood, or Grevillea trees, ornamented the scene, the country again opening into beautiful grassy lawns.
Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866
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W. steered a S.W. course, towards some low and wooded hills, passing a rocky island, and found that we had struck the mouth of a channel running to the W.S.W. It was about half-a-mile wide, was bounded to the right by some open flat ground, and to the left by a line of hills of about sixty or seventy feet in elevation, partly open and partly covered with beefwood.
Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Volume 2 Charles Sturt 1832
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W. steered a S.W. course, towards some low and wooded hills, passing a rocky island, and found that we had struck the mouth of a channel running to the W.S.W. It was about half-a-mile wide, was bounded to the right by some open flat ground, and to the left by a line of hills of about sixty or seventy feet in elevation, partly open and partly covered with beefwood.
Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete Charles Sturt 1832
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Between those brushes the ground was open forest with good grass, casuarina or beefwood, and large timber: the hills as usual stony.
Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales John Oxley 1804
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