Definition of "beefwood" []

• Any of various Australian evergreen trees or shrubs of the genus Casuarina, having jointed stems, scalelike whorled leaves, and small fruits grouped in woody conelike structures. (noun)
• The wood of any of these plants, often used in construction. (noun)

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• "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."
• "Between those brushes the ground was open forest with good grass, casuarina or beefwood, and large timber: the hills as usual stony."
• "On June 2nd we crossed the last sand-ridge of the great northern desert, and before us spread the rolling gravel-covered undulations of sand, treeless except for an occasional beefwood or small clump of mulga, rolling away before us like a swelling ocean."