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BEEFWOOD

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood

Synonyms:

beefwood; Grevillea striata

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

beefwood; scrub beefwood; Stenocarpus salignus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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 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:

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 5

Meaning:

A tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber

Synonyms:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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)

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