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beefwood

NOUN
  1. tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish wood
  2. tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood
  3. any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for cabinetwork
  4. a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber
  5. any of several Australian trees of the genus Casuarina yielding heavy hard red wood used in cabinetwork

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  • Sally wattle, ironwood and beefwood dominate the very sparse canopy.
  • The beefwood tree, the leaves of which camels, when hard pressed, will eat, alone commands the summit of the undulations. Spinifex and Sand
  • White beefwood grows in the drier more exposed areas and is often found in regrowth.
  • 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
  • Australian Pine, also known as ironwood or beefwood, is an exotic, evergreen species native to southern Asia and Australia.
  • 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
  • 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
  • The fine-leafed beefwood or forest wax tree, Grevillea coriacea (family Proteaceae), is a characteristic tree of the open woodland and grassland of central Cape York Peninsula.
  • 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
  • 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
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