beefwood

American  

[beef-wood] / ˈbifˌwʊd /

noun

1. any of several chiefly Australian trees of the genus Casuarina, having feathery branches that lack true foliage leaves.

2. the hard, reddish wood of any of these trees, used for making furniture.

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beefwood British  

/ ˈbiːfˌwʊd /

noun

1. any of various trees that produce very hard wood, esp the Australian tree Casuarina equisetifolia , widely planted in warm regions See casuarina

2. the wood of any of these trees

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Etymology

Origin of beefwood

First recorded in 1750–60; beef + wood ¹

Example Sentences

They translated themselves on beefwood trees into the sky, and there they are still.

From The Euahlayi Tribe; a study of aboriginal life in Australia by Parker, K. Langloh (Katie Langloh)

It is about six feet long, great lumps of beefwood gum making knobs on it at intervals; between each knob it is painted.

From The Euahlayi Tribe; a study of aboriginal life in Australia by Parker, K. Langloh (Katie Langloh)

We could, by their tracks, see where they had herded together in fear under a beefwood tree not one hundred yards from us.

From Spinifex and Sand by Carnegie, David Wynford

Between those brushes the ground was open forest with good grass, casuarina or beefwood, and large timber: the hills as usual stony.

From Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales by Oxley, John

The beefwood tree, the leaves of which camels, when hard pressed, will eat, alone commands the summit of the undulations.

From Spinifex and Sand by Carnegie, David Wynford