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.
Wikipedia
Santalum freycinetianum, forest sandalwood, Freycinet sandalwood, or Iliahi, is a species of flowering tree in the European mistletoe family, Santalaceae, that is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands. Its binomial name commemorates Henri Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet, a 19th-century French explorer. Iliahi inhabits dry, coastal mesic, mixed mesic, and wet forests on Oahu, Kauai, Lānai, Maui, and Molokai at elevations of . It grows in areas that receive of annual rainfall. Like other members of its genus, iliahi is a root hemi-parasite, deriving some of its nutrients from the host plant; common hosts include koa ( Acacia koa), koaia ( Acacia koaia), and aalii ( Dodonaea viscosa).