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Some used for cabinetwork
Answer for the clue "Some used for cabinetwork ", 8 letters:
beefwood
Alternative clues for the word beefwood
- Tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers
- Yields hard heavy reddish wood
- Tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood
- Any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae
- A hard-wooded tropical tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber
- Any of several Australian trees of the genus Casuarina yielding heavy hard red wood used in cabinetwork
Word definitions for beefwood in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Porkwood \Pork"wood`\, n. (Bot.) The coarse-grained brownish yellow wood of a small tree ( Pisonia obtusata ) of Florida and the West Indies. Also called pigeon wood , beefwood , and corkwood .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a hard-wooded tropical tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber [syn: balata , balata tree , bully tree , Manilkara bidentata ] any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for ...
Usage examples of beefwood.
The square-built granite walls of the garden, high and formidable as those of a prison, were plain for all to see, rearing above the stately beefwood and camphor trees, and broad plots of multi-coloured blossoms.