The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sandalwood \San"dal*wood\, n. [F. sandal, santal, fr. Ar. [,c]andal, or Gr. sa`ntalon; both ultimately fr. Skr. candana. Cf. Sanders.] (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.
Any tree of the genus Santalum, or a tree which yields sandalwood.
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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.
WordNet
n. hard durable wood of red sandalwood trees (Pterocarpus santalinus); prized for cabinetwork [syn: ruby wood]
tree of India and East Indies yielding a hard fragrant timber prized for cabinetwork and dark red heartwood used as a dyewood [syn: red sanders, red sanderswood, red saunders, Pterocarpus santalinus]
East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers; cultivated as an ornamental [syn: coralwood, coral-wood, Barbados pride, peacock flower fence, Adenanthera pavonina]
Usage examples of "red sandalwood".
The High Temple's benches were not of serviceable ash but sun-blond oak, waxed and polished to glowing perfection and inset with ebony, fragrant red sandalwood, thin layers of semi-precious stones, and whole sheets of shimmering mother of pearl.
After he was dressed, they splattered him with red sandalwood and vermillion, and then they put marigold garlands around his neck.