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n. - Tree or tall shrub with shiny leaves and umbels of fragrant creamy-white flowers;

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  • Besides those gums, another Australasian tree, the thin-foliaged and unlovely, but quick-growing "beefwood," has been largely planted at Kimberley and some other places.
  • The beefwood tree, the leaves of which camels, when hard pressed, will eat, alone commands the summit of the undulations.
  • Between those brushes the ground was open forest with good grass, casuarina or beefwood, and large timber: the hills as usual stony.
  • Next some parallel ridges lying north and south were crossed, where some beefwood, or Grevillea trees, ornamented the scene, the country again opening into beautiful...
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