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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Porkwood \Pork"wood`\, n. (Bot.) The coarse-grained brownish yellow wood of a small tree ({Pisonia obtusata}) of Florida and the West Indies. Also called {pigeon wood}, {beefwood}, and {corkwood}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Beefwood \Beef"wood`\, n. An Australian tree ({Casuarina}), and its red wood, used for cabinetwork; also the trees {Stenocarpus salignus} of New South Wales, and {Banksia compar} of Queensland. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Casuarina \Cas`u*a*ri"na\, n. [NL., supposed to be named from the resemblance of the twigs to the feathers of the cassowary, of the genus {Casuarius}.] (Bot.) A genus of leafless trees or shrubs, with drooping branchlets of a rushlike appearance, mostly natives of Australia. Some of them are large producing hard and heavy timber of excellent quality, called {beefwood} from its color. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: beefwood n 1: a hard-wooded tropical tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber [syn: {balata}, {balata tree}, {bully tree}, {Manilkara bidentata}] 2: any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for cabinetwork 3: any of several Australian trees of the genus Casuarina yielding heavy hard red wood used in cabinetwork 4: tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish wood [syn: {scrub beefwood}, {Stenocarpus salignus}] 5: tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood [syn: {Grevillea striata}]
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