scrub beefwood

scrub beefwood
noun
tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish wood
Hypernyms: ↑tree
Member Holonyms: ↑Stenocarpus, ↑genus Stenocarpus
Substance Meronyms: ↑beefwood

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