Casuarina

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun 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.

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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris