Definition of Sandelwood
San"dal*wood (?), n. [F. sandal,
santal, fr. Ar. çandal, 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.
San"dal*wood (?), n. [F. sandal,
santal, fr. Ar. çandal, 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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- Any of various tropical trees of the genus Santalum, native to India, Hawaii, and many south Pacific islands.
- The aromatic wood of these trees.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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