Definition of Sandalwoods. Meaning of Sandalwoods. Synonyms of Sandalwoods

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Definition of Sandalwoods

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 Sandalwoods from wikipedia

- 15th century. Sandalwoods are medium-sized hemiparasitic trees, and part of the same botanical family as European mistletoe. True sandalwoods are native...
- which includes: True sandalwoods, of the genus Santalum, particularly several commercially harvested species that provide sandalwood timber: Santalum album...
- be known as sandalwood. Other species in the genus Santalum, such as the Australian S. ****atum, are also referred to as true sandalwoods, to distinguish...
- sandalwood trees, mainly Santalum album (Indian sandalwood) and Santalum ****atum (Australian sandalwood). Sandalwood oil is used in perfumes, cosmetics, sacred...
- Santalum haleakalae var. lanaiense occupies wet shrublands. Like most sandalwoods, Santalum haleakalae is a hemiparasite, deriving some of its nutrition...
- plants in the dicotyledons. Well-known members of the Santalales include sandalwoods and the many species of mistletoes. The order has a cosmopolitan distribution...
- Kannada cinema, also known as Sandalwood, or Chandanavana, is the segment of Indian cinema dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Kannada...
- names red sanders, red saunders, Yerra Chandanam, Chenchandanam, red sandalwood, Rakta Chandana, and rakto chandon, is a species of Pterocarpus endemic...
- family Santalaceae, one of the many genera known as sandalwoods, but not one of the true sandalwood. The species of this genus are mostly hemiparasitic...
- held on the islands, which are often over three miles (4.8 km) long. Sandalwoods have good endurance, and are considered easy to manage. They should have...