单词 | beefwood |
释义 | beefwood (once / 369354 pages) n WORD FAMILY beefwood USAGE EXAMPLESHis Snakewood, backed, and Beefwood, backed, are better than the same of English make. Various, Harper's Young People, December 30,...(2010) Besides those gums, another Australasian tree, the thin-foliaged and unlovely, but quick-growing "beefwood," has been largely planted at Kimberley and some other places. Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount, Impressions of South Africa(2010) Between those brushes the ground was open forest with good grass, casuarina or beefwood, and large timber: the hills as usual stony. Oxley, John, Journals of Two Expeditions into th...(2010) 1n tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood Syn|Hyper Grevillea striata silk oak any of several Australian timber trees having usually fernlike foliage and mottled wood used in cabinetry and veneering 2n any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for cabinetwork Hyper wood the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees 3n any of several Australian trees of the genus Casuarina yielding heavy hard red wood used in cabinetwork Hypo|Hyper Australian pine, Casuarina equisetfolia common Australian tree widely grown as an ornamental in tropical regions; yields heavy hard red wood casuarina any of various trees and shrubs of the genus Casuarina having jointed stems and whorls of scalelike leaves; some yield heavy hardwood 4n tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish wood Syn|Hyper Stenocarpus salignus, scrub beefwood tree a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms 5n a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber Syn|Hyper Manilkara bidentata, balata, balata tree, bully tree tree a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms |
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