Sandalwood
Definition of Sandalwood
San´dal`wood
n.
1.
(Bot.)
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
.
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
.
Related Words
sandalwood
tree
,
Santalum
album
,
true
sandalwood
,
wood
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