an Australian casuarina tree, Casuarina cristata, yielding a useful timber
belah in American English
(ˈbilə)
noun
beefwood
Word origin
[1860–65; ‹ Wiradjuri bilārr]This word is first recorded in the period 1860–65. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: blind spot, jumping jack, monism, mutualism, trade name