Any of several Australian trees of the genus Casuarina yielding heavy hard red wood used in cabinetwork

• Tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers
• A hard-wooded tropical tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber
• Yields hard heavy reddish wood
• Any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae

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.

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 ...

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 .