beefwood
nounEtymology From beef + wood.
1
Any of the Australian trees, of at least three different orders of plants, having timber resembling raw beef.
2
Timber of those trees.
- Synonyms
- belah
- Derived terms
- cornbeefwood, Killarney beefwood, narrow-leaved beefwood, scrub beefwood, western beefwood, white beefwood
- Hyponyms
- Barringtonia calyptrata, Barringtonia racemosa, Bischofia javanica, Grevillea parallela, Grevillea striata, Orites excelsa, Stenocarpus salignus, Stenocarpus sinuatus