n.
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
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
5.tree yielding hard heavy reddish wood
Idiom of the Day
back the wrong horse
to support someone or something that cannot win or succeed
We backed the wrong horse in the election and our candidate lost badly.