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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
beefwood is a noun meaning "a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber". It carries 5 recorded senses.
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; yields hard heavy reddish wood
tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for beefwood come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.