beef-woodn.
/ˈbiːfwʊd/, U.S. /ˈbifˌwʊd/ 1. The timber of an Australian tree (Casuarina), so called from its red colour; the tree has long, pendent, jointed, thread-like branches, without leaves, but with small sheaths at the joints.
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puriri1835
beef-wood1836
whau1840
rimu1851
cheesewood1854
Tolosa-wood1866
karri1870
ivorywood1887
1836 Penny Cycl. VI. 358 The timber of some species [Casuarina] forms the beefwood of the New South Wales colonists.
1880 Handbk. Austral. (S. W. Silver & Co.) 275 The beef-wood..and tulipwood take a high polish.
2. Applied to various other trees, e.g. in New South Wales to Stenocarpus salignus; in Queensland to Banksia compar (both family Proteaceæ); in Jamaica to evergreen shrubs or low trees of the genus Ardisia (family Myrsinaceæ).
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mountain ebony1696
pigeon wood?1740
beef-wood1756
zebrawood1768
satinwood1773
afzelia1798
1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 201 This tree is commonly called by the name of Beef-wood.., from the fleshy colour of the interior bark.
1819 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 4 654 Well wooded with..the Beefwood.
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