beefwood

1. 1.

   a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber

   Synonymsbalatabalata treebully treeManilkara bidentata

   Broadertree
2. 2.

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

   Broaderwood
3. 3.

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

   Broadercasuarina

   NarrowerAustralian pine

   Part ofgenus Casuarina
4. 4.

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

   Synonymsscrub beefwoodStenocarpus salignus

   Broadertree

   Part ofStenocarpus
5. 5.

   tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood

   SynonymsGrevillea striata

   Broadersilk oak

Other forms of beefwood

plural

beefwoods·

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.

Questions about beefwood

What does beefwood mean?

beefwood means "a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in beefwood?

beefwood has 2 syllables and divides as beef-wood under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for beefwood?

Close synonyms include balata, balata tree, bully tree, Manilkara bidentata, scrub beefwood. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is beefwood a common word?

beefwood is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.