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Sandalwood
San′dal-wood
,Noun.
[F.
sandal
, santal
, fr. Ar. çandal
, or Gr. σάνταλον
; 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
). 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
.