sandalwood
n . 檀香[白檀]
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grained fragrant yellowish heartwood of the true sandalwood ;
has insect repelling properties and is used for carving and cabinetwork 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
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