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sandalwood (encz) | sandalwood,santal n: Zdeněk Brož |
Sandalwood (gcide) | 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 |
sandalwood (wn) | sandalwood
n 1: close-grained fragrant yellowish heartwood of the true
sandalwood; has insect repelling properties and is used for
carving and cabinetwork |
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red sandalwood (encz) | red sandalwood, n: |
sandalwood (encz) | sandalwood,santal n: Zdeněk Brož |
sandalwood family (encz) | sandalwood family, n: |
sandalwood tree (encz) | sandalwood tree, n: |
true sandalwood (encz) | true sandalwood, n: |
False sandalwood (gcide) | 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 |
Red sandalwood (gcide) | 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 |
african sandalwood (wn) | African sandalwood
n 1: small shrubby African tree with hard wood used as a dyewood
yielding a red dye [syn: camwood, African sandalwood,
Baphia nitida] |
red sandalwood (wn) | red sandalwood
n 1: hard durable wood of red sandalwood trees (Pterocarpus
santalinus); prized for cabinetwork [syn: ruby wood, {red
sandalwood}]
2: tree of India and East Indies yielding a hard fragrant timber
prized for cabinetwork and dark red heartwood used as a
dyewood [syn: red sandalwood, red sanders, {red
sanderswood}, red saunders, Pterocarpus santalinus]
3: East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers;
cultivated as an ornamental [syn: coralwood, coral-wood,
red sandalwood, Barbados pride, peacock flower fence,
Adenanthera pavonina] |
sandalwood (wn) | sandalwood
n 1: close-grained fragrant yellowish heartwood of the true
sandalwood; has insect repelling properties and is used for
carving and cabinetwork |
sandalwood family (wn) | sandalwood family
n 1: chiefly tropical herbs or shrubs or trees bearing nuts or
one-seeded fruit [syn: Santalaceae, family Santalaceae,
sandalwood family] |
sandalwood tree (wn) | sandalwood tree
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] |
true sandalwood (wn) | true sandalwood
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] |
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