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A hard-wooded tropical tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber
Answer for the clue "A hard-wooded tropical tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber ", 8 letters:
beefwood
Alternative clues for the word beefwood
- Tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood
- Some used for cabinetwork
- Yields hard heavy reddish wood
- Any of several Australian trees of the genus Casuarina yielding heavy hard red wood used in cabinetwork
- Any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae
Word definitions for beefwood in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Beefwood is the name given to a number of Australian trees which have timber with a red colouration resembling raw beef as follows: Barringtonia calyptrata , also known as Cornbeefwood. Barringtonia racemosa , also known as Cornbeefwood. Bischofia javanica ...
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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of the Australian trees having timber resembling raw beef 2 (context uncountable English) The timber of those trees.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Casuarina \Cas`u*a*ri"na\, n. [NL., supposed to be named from the resemblance of the twigs to the feathers of the cassowary, of the genus Casuarius .] (Bot.) A genus of leafless trees or shrubs, with drooping branchlets of a rushlike appearance, mostly ...
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.