beefwood

English

A beefwood (sense 1), specifically Casuarina equisetifolia

Etymology

beef + wood.

Noun

beefwood (countable and uncountable, plural beefwoods)

  1. Any of the Australian trees, of at least three different orders of plants, having timber resembling raw beef.
  2. (uncountable) Timber of those trees.

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