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Parasitic trees of Indonesia and Malaysia
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santalum
Word definitions for santalum in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Santalum is a genus of woody flowering plants , the best known and commercially valuable of which is the Indian sandalwood tree, S. album . Members of the genus are trees or shrubs . Most are root parasites which photosynthesize their own food, but tap ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Santalum \San"ta*lum\, n. [NL. See Sandalwood .] (Bot.) A genus of trees with entire opposite leaves and small apetalous flowers. There are less than a dozen species, occurring from India to Australia and the Pacific Islands. See Sandalwood .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context botany English) Any of the genus ''Santalum'' of trees with entire opposite leaves and small apetalous flowers.
Usage examples of santalum.
The wood of a low tree, the Santalum Album, resembling the privet, and growing on the coast of Malabar, in the Indian Archipelago, etc.