beefwood

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During the 'wet' (our winter), it's impassable, during the 'dry' (April to October), it's rough but idyllic, with scenery punctuated by massive, sculptural boabs (Aussie baobabs), black beefwood trees and blinding white ghost-gums shading hundreds of humpbacked Brahman cattle.

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  1. noun 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.
  2. noun The wood of any of these plants, often used in construction.

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  • The gallery includes significant purchases made by the National Museum including the First Fleet table, made of beefwood collected near Port Jackson for the First Fleet Surgeon General John White in the early 1790s, and a rich collection associated with Captain James Cook including Cook's plane table surveying frame, a striking marble bust and copy of Banks ' —  The RiotACT
  • Between those brushes the ground was open forest with good grass, casuarina or beefwood, and large timber: the hills as usual stony. —  Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales
  • If he was satisfied, I am sure that I was CHAPTER VII THE LAST OF THE RIDGES OF DRIFT SAND On June 1st we left the rock-holes on a South-West course, crossing irregular sandhills with the usual vegetation 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. —  Spinifex and Sand
  • During the 'wet' (our winter), it's impassable, during the 'dry' (April to October), it's rough but idyllic, with scenery punctuated by massive, sculptural boabs (Aussie baobabs), black beefwood trees and blinding white ghost-gums shading hundreds of humpbacked Brahman cattle. —  British Blogs
  • The beefwood tree, the leaves of which camels, when hard pressed, will eat, alone commands the summit of the undulations. —  Spinifex and Sand
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  1. from beef (in allusion to its grain and color) + wood.
 

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