beefwood

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber
noun any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for cabinetwork
noun any of several Australian trees of the genus Casuarina yielding heavy hard red wood used in cabinetwork

From beef + wood.

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. — Impressions of South Africa, James Bryce, Viscount Bryce
There were mimosas, banyan trees, beefwood, teakwood, hibiscus, screw pines, palm trees, all mingling in wild profusion; and beneath the shade of their green canopies, at the feet of their gigantic trunks, there grew orchids, leguminous plants, and ferns. — Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World, Jules Verne

balata, balata tree, bully tree, Manilkara bidentata

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