noun
1. a tropical hardwood tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber
• Syn: ↑balata, ↑balata tree, ↑bully tree, ↑Manilkara bidentata
• Hypernyms: ↑tree
• Substance Meronyms: ↑balata, ↑gutta balata
2. any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for cabinetwork
• Hypernyms: ↑wood
• Substance Holonyms: ↑Grevillea striata, ↑scrub beefwood, ↑Stenocarpus salignus
3. any of several Australian trees of the genus Casuarina yielding heavy hard red wood used in cabinetwork
• Hypernyms: ↑casuarina
• Hyponyms: ↑Australian pine, ↑Casuarina equisetfolia
• Member Holonyms: ↑genus Casuarina
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
• Hypernyms: ↑tree
• Member Holonyms: ↑Stenocarpus, ↑genus Stenocarpus
5. tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood
• Syn: ↑Grevillea striata
• Hypernyms: ↑silk oak
Useful english dictionary. 2012.