About The Word Sandalwood
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Sandalwood
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What's The Definition Of Sandalwood?
[n] close-grained fragrant yellowish heartwood of the true sandalwood; has insect-repelling properties and is used for carving and cabinetwork
Synonyms | Synonyms for Sandalwood: Related Terms | Find terms related to Sandalwood: See Also | sandalwood tree | Santalum album | true sandalwood | wood Sandalwood In Webster's Dictionary \San"dal*wood\, n. [F. sandal, santal, fr. Ar.
[,c]andal, or Gr. sa`ntalon; both ultimately fr. Skr.
candana. Cf. {Sanders}.] (Bot.)
(a) The highly perfumed yellowish heartwood of an East Indian
and Polynesian tree ({Santalum album}), and of several
other trees of the same genus, as the Hawaiian {Santalum
Freycinetianum} and {S. pyrularium}, the Australian {S.
latifolium}, etc. The name is extended to several other
kinds of fragrant wood.
(b) Any tree of the genus {Santalum}, or a tree which yields
sandalwood.
(c) The red wood of a kind of buckthorn, used in Russia for
dyeing leather ({Rhamnus Dahuricus}).
{False sandalwood}, the fragrant wood of several trees not of
the genus {Santalum}, as {Ximenia Americana}, {Myoporum
tenuifolium} of Tahiti.
{Red sandalwood}, a heavy, dark red dyewood, being the
heartwood of two leguminous trees of India ({Pterocarpus
santalinus}, and {Adenanthera pavonina}); -- called also
{red sanderswood}, {sanders} or {saunders}, and
{rubywood}.
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