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Definition of Sandalwood

Sandalwood
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 S. pyrularium, the Australian S. 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). 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.

Meaning of Sandalwood from wikipedia

- Sandalwood is a class of woods from trees in the genus Santalum. The woods are heavy, yellow, and fine-grained, and, unlike many other aromatic woods,...
- names red sanders, red saunders, Yerra Chandanam, Chenchandanam, red sandalwood, Rakta Chandana, and rakto chandon, is a species of Pterocarpus endemic...
- sandalwood trees, mainly Santalum album (Indian sandalwood) and Santalum ****atum (Australian sandalwood). Sandalwood oil is used in perfumes, cosmetics, sacred...
- Western Australia. It is commonly known as the true sandalwood, white sandalwood, or Indian sandalwood. It was one of the plants exploited by Austronesian...
- up sandalwood in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sandalwood is the common name of many species of plants and their wood and oils. The sandalwood family...
- False Sandalwood is a common name for several plants and may refer to: Adenanthera pavonina, false red sandalwood Eremophila mitc****ii, a shrub or small...
- family, 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...
- Sandalwood Death (Chinese: 檀香刑) is a 2001 novel by Nobel prize-winning author Mo Yan. The English version, translated by Howard Goldblatt, was released...
- titled Red Sandal, before being amended to Red Sandalwood. The film was inspired by true event of sandalwood smuggling in Andhra Pradesh. The shoot of the...
- Kannada cinema, also known as Sandalwood, or Chandanavana, is the segment of Indian cinema dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Kannada...