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[syn: sandalwood tree, true sandalwood, Santalum album]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sandalwood \San"dal*wood\, n. [F. sandal, santal, fr. Ar.
[,c]andal, or Gr. sa`ntalon; both ultimately fr. Skr.
candana. Cf. Sanders.] (Bot.)
(a) 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 Santalum pyrularium, the Australian
Santalum latifolium, etc. The name is extended to
several other kinds of fragrant wood.
(b) Any tree of the genus Santalum, or a tree which yields
sandalwood.
(c) The red wood of a kind of buckthorn, used in Russia for
dyeing leather (Rhamnus Dahuricus).
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster] Sandarach
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Kyaboca wood \Ky`a*bo"ca wood`\n. (Bot.)
(a) Amboyna wood.
(b) Sandalwood (Santalum album).
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Santalum album
n 1: parasitic tree of Indonesia and Malaysia having fragrant
close-grained yellowish heartwood with insect repelling
properties and used, e.g., for making chests [syn:
sandalwood tree, true sandalwood, Santalum album]