Crossword clues for sandalwood
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1510s, earlier sandell (c.1400), saundres (early 14c.), from Old French sandale, from Medieval Latin sandalum, from Late Greek santalon, ultimately from Sanskrit čandana-m "the sandalwood tree," perhaps literally "wood for burning incense," related to candrah "shining, glowing," and cognate with Latin candere "to shine, glow" (see candle).
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of various tropical trees of the genus ''Santalum'', native or long naturalized in India, Australia, Hawaii, and many south Pacific islands. 2 The aromatic heartwood of these trees used in ornamental carving, in the construction of insect-repellent boxes and chests, and as a source of certain perfumes.
WordNet
n. close-grained fragrant yellowish heartwood of the true sandalwood; has insect-repelling properties and is used for carving and cabinetwork
Wikipedia
Sandalwood is the name of a class of woods from trees in the genus Santalum. The woods are heavy, yellow, and fine-grained, and unlike many other aromatic woods, they retain their fragrance for decades. Sandalwood oil is extracted from the woods for use. Both the wood and the oil produce a distinctive fragrance that has been highly valued for centuries. Consequently, species of these slow-growing trees have suffered over-harvesting in the past century.
Sandalwood is the common name of many species of plants and their wood and oils.
- True Sandalwoods, the genus Santalum; particularly several commercially harvested species that provide sandalwood timber:
- Santalum album, white or Indian sandalwood,
- Santalum ellipticum, coast sandalwood
- Santalum freycinetianum, Hawaiian sandalwood
- Santalum lanceolatum, Northern sandalwood (also Northern sandalbox)
- Santalum spicatum, Australian sandalwood
- The sandalwood family, Santalaceae
- Osyris lanceolata, African sandalwood
- Osyris tenuifolia, east African sandalwood
- Various unrelated plants with similarly-scented wood or oil:
- Adenanthera pavonina, sandalwood tree; red, false red sandalwood
- Baphia nitida, camwood, also known as African sandalwood
- Eremophila mitchellii, sandalwood; false sandalwood (also sandalbox)
- Myoporum platycarpum, sandalwood; false sandalwood
- Myoporum sandwicense, bastard sandalwood; false sandalwood
- Pterocarpus santalinus, red sandalwood
Sandalwood may also refer to:
- Sandalwood oil, oil derived from Santalum album or Santulum spicatum
- Sandalwood Pony, a horse from the Indonesian islands of Sumba and Sumbawa
- Sandalwood, South Australia, a town
- Sandalwood Island, former name of Vanua Levu
- Sandalwood cinema, films known as the Cinema of Karnataka
- Sandalwood High School, a public high school in Jacksonville, Florida
- Sandalwood, a neighborhood of Jacksonville, Florida
- USS Sandalwood (AN-32), an Aloe-class net laying ship
Usage examples of "sandalwood".
But there was about their savagery a curious touch of civilization, for Malays from Macassar and from Java had for centuries come here in their praus in search of sandalwood and cedar and cypress and trepang and pearl-shell, coming at the end of one trade-wind season and returning with the beginning of the next, thereby having a favouring wind each way--a matter of great importance to a craft so ill suited to headwinds as a prau.
Her face like bitter stone, Pauline slapped open the sandalwood sticks and began to fan her sister, while Louise Marie, a long-suffering smile of martyred gratitude and a gleam of satisfaction in her eye, jerked and hobbled through a Mozart contredanse in a fashion that amply demonstrated that she had done none of her appointed practice during the previous four days.
There are no mountains or heights, so that it may safely be presumed that there are no metals, nor any valuable timbers, such as sandalwood, aloe or calumba, and in our judgment this is the dryest and barrenest region that could be found in the world.
Cheyne, indeed, a veteran of the Melanesian sandalwood trade, was killed on Palau in 1866 after a decade of failed commercial undertakings.
Kai-kai is the Polynesian for food, meat, eating, and to eat: but it would be hard to say whether it was introduced into Melanesia by the sandalwood traders or by the Polynesian westward drift.
Zoroaster inveighed against the use of sandalwood and frankincense on the ground that these perfumes are sacred to devils.
It was a quality that made one intensely aware of him, as if with the awareness induced by some drug: aware of his thin, charcoal wrist emerging from a white silk cuff, of the movements of his body under his clothes, of his quiet breathing, of his smell which was of wood:-- cedarwood or even sandalwood.
Cleansing my hands each step of the way I set before it incense made from camphorwood and from white sandalwood.
And when she passes with the dreadful boys And romping girls, the cockneys loud and crude, My thought, to the Minories tied yet moved to range The Land o' the Sun, commingles with the noise Of magian drums and scents of sandalwood A touch Sidonian--modern--taking--strange!
Anya flashed a last deceitfully honest-looking smile, then inclined her head and slipped past Cerryl and toward the middle Hall, leaving behind the heavy scents of sandalwood and trilia.
To the right of the table stood an antique bronze tripod, and delicate curls of sandalwood incense-smoke drifted out through the perforated mouth of the animal-shaped cover.
The cathedral ceiling hung far away above him in dismal shadows, beamed and sloping, smelling faintly of mildew and sandalwood and tallow.
When we thought he was finished, we were standing up, leaving the table and heading for the door, when suddenly Grandpa made one final last 1,000 kiloton looger, right into the sandalwood candelabra Jasmine bought at the Snohomish craft fair, extinguishing all three candles.
Choose a time when you are not too tired and before you begin, have a bath to which a few drops of sandalwood or ylang ylang oil are added for heightened psychic awareness.
The ships are freighted by them at the rate of thirty per cent for fine goods, forty-four for pepper, and for lignum aloes, sandalwood, and other drugs, as well as articles of trade in general, forty per cent.