Noun

• 1. a hard-wooded tropical tree yielding balata gum and heavy red timber

• 2. any of several heavy hard reddish chiefly tropical woods of the families Casuarinaceae and Proteaceae; some used for cabinetwork

• 3. any of several Australian trees of the genus Casuarina yielding heavy hard red wood used in cabinetwork

• 4. tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers; yields hard heavy reddish wood

• 5. tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood