What is "beefwood"

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.

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 natives of Australia. Some of them are large, producing hard and heavy timber of excellent quality, called beefwood from its color.

n. 1 Any of the Australian trees having timber resembling raw beef 2 (context uncountable English) The timber of those trees.

1. n. a hard-wooded tropical tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber [syn: balata, balata tree, bully tree, Manilkara bidentata]

2. any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for cabinetwork

3. any of several Australian trees of the genus Casuarina yielding heavy hard red wood used in cabinetwork

4. tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish wood [syn: scrub beefwood, Stenocarpus salignus]

5. tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood [syn: Grevillea striata]

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
• Grevillea glauca, also known as Beefwood tree.
• Grevillea parallela, also known as Narrow-leaved Beefwood.
• Grevillea striata, also known as Western Beefwood.
• Orites excelsa, also known as White Beefwood.
• Stenocarpus salignus also known as Killarney Beefwood or Scrub Beefwood.
• Stenocarpus sinuatus also known as White Beefwood.

Some Casuarinaceae species are also referred to as Beefwoods