BEEFWOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does beefwood mean? 

• BEEFWOOD (noun)
  The noun BEEFWOOD has 5 senses:

1. a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber

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

5. tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood

  Familiarity information: BEEFWOOD used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEEFWOOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

balata; balata tree; beefwood; bully tree; Manilkara bidentata

Hypernyms ("beefwood" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Meronyms (substance of "beefwood"):

balata; gutta balata (when dried yields a hard substance used e.g. in golf balls)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("beefwood" is a kind of...):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Holonyms ("beefwood" is a substance of...):

beefwood; Grevillea striata (tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood)

beefwood; scrub beefwood; Stenocarpus salignus (tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish wood)

beefwood (any of several Australian trees of the genus Casuarina yielding heavy hard red wood used in cabinetwork)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("beefwood" is a kind of...):

casuarina (any of various trees and shrubs of the genus Casuarina having jointed stems and whorls of scalelike leaves; some yield heavy hardwood)

Meronyms (substance of "beefwood"):

beefwood (any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for cabinetwork)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "beefwood"):

Australian pine; Casuarina equisetfolia (common Australian tree widely grown as an ornamental in tropical regions; yields heavy hard red wood)

Holonyms ("beefwood" is a member of...):

genus Casuarina (genus of trees and shrubs widely naturalized in southern United States and West Indies; coextensive with the family Casuarinaceae and order Casuarinales)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish wood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

beefwood; scrub beefwood; Stenocarpus salignus

Hypernyms ("beefwood" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Meronyms (substance of "beefwood"):

beefwood (any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for cabinetwork)

Holonyms ("beefwood" is a member of...):

genus Stenocarpus; Stenocarpus (small genus of timber trees; Australia to Malaysia)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

beefwood; Grevillea striata

Hypernyms ("beefwood" is a kind of...):

silk oak (any of several Australian timber trees having usually fernlike foliage and mottled wood used in cabinetry and veneering)

Meronyms (substance of "beefwood"):

beefwood (any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for cabinetwork)